NEW YORK (AP) — Every Olympic event will be streamed live. But to watch online, you’ll still need to be a paying cable or satellite subscriber. As with past Olympics, NBC is requiring proof of a subscription. If you’ve already given up on traditional cable or satellite TV, you can sign up for an online […]
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Ted Ligety is back for another Olympics, after a long and painful road
DAEGWALLYEONG, South Korea — Over the summer and into the fall, Ted Ligety’s long road back was starting to appear headed for an unforgiving dead end. Injuries and time away from the hill had taken their toll, and Ligety looked nothing like the skier who’d raced in three Olympics, who’d won two gold medals and […]
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In Olympic curling, men and women are not created equal
PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — The 40-pound granite stone at the heart of curling is nearly impossible to lift — heavier, somehow, than any 40-pound bag of garden mulch or dog food because its entire mass is crammed into a rock no bigger than a bistro chair cushion with a small handle attached. But the point […]
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Olympic FAQ: What is curling?
Curling is contested on ice – called a sheet – with targets at either end, referred to as the house. The house is made up of 12-, 8- and 4-foot rings and the center, called a button. Teams take turns sliding a large granite stone, sometimes called a rock, from one end of the sheet […]
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Mikaela Shiffrin is the world’s best female skier; Is that good enough for gold?
The numbers are plain, and they lay out the case that’s as easy to argue as the sky is blue or rock beats scissors. Mikaela Shiffrin is the best female Alpine ski racer in the world. Not yet 23, she is on a pace that could leave her as the most decorated World Cup racer […]
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NBC Olympic coverage available on air and online
NEW YORK (AP) — Fresh off the Super Bowl, NBC begins more than two weeks of Winter Olympics coverage on Thursday with a new host, some new wrinkles and the hope that its business model keeps pace with the different ways people experience events on television and online. Some skiing and figure skating competition takes […]
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Why has no U.S. woman won Olympic figure skating gold since 2002?
GANGNEUNG, South Korea — Kimmie Meissner spent her childhood trying to keep up with three older brothers in soccer and lacrosse, so they’d let her join their teams. After figure skating became her passion, she tried keeping up with the best in the world. “I definitely wanted to push the sport a little bit technically,” […]
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Think you could be an Olympic curler? Don’t make these women laugh
LONDON, Ontario — American curling champion Tabitha Peterson has heard it all: Anyone can curl. My grandmother can curl. The Swiffer sport. Housekeeping comes to the Winter Games. “Everyone thinks they can go to the Olympics in curling because they think it’s so easy,” she says, shaking her ponytail. She’s sitting in a nearly empty […]
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Face Time: Former U.S. Ski Team coach Bob Harkins
Bob Harkins has always loved the outdoors, and pursued that love in his occupations, including a registered Maine guide, general manager of Mt. Abram ski area and a coach for the U.S. Ski Team. When he wasn’t instructing hopefuls for the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Harkins was also the director of athlete development, for […]
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Olympic skier ignored those who said not to go so big
PARK CITY, Utah – Ashley Caldwell grew up a gymnast and, when she first took her acrobatics to snow, throwing herself into a demanding and breath-catching discipline, she didn’t fully understand the gender divide among aerialists. Not only were the boys attempting more difficult, thrilling tricks, but it seemed the female freestyle skiers were discouraged […]