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FILE - United States' Mikaela Shiffrin speeds down the course during a women's World Cup super-G skiing race in Val D'Isere, France, Dec. 19, 2021. Shiffrin is expected to enter all five individual Alpine events and be one of the main faces of the Olympics that officially open on Feb. 4. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati, File)
Olympic star Shiffrin: Loss of father 'still pretty painful'

By Pat Graham And Howard Fendrich 8 hrs ago

A person wearing a face shield walks past the Olympic rings inside the main media center at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)
NBC will not send announcers to Beijing for Winter Games

By Joe Reedy 23 hrs ago

Mark Waechter, owner of Nordic Ultratune, a ski retail and repair shop in Winthrop, Washington, stands with a new batch of skis that arrived for the 2021-22 winter ski season. When COVID-19 hit in the winter of 2020, many escaped cabin fever by hitting the ski trails and Nordic skis quickly became the new toilet paper – they were hard to find and sold out in stores. The ski boom has continued as the pandemic makes winter outdoor recreation appealing, but climate change means its future is uncertain. (AP Photo/Martha Bellisle)
Climate change makes the future of Nordic skiing uncertain

By Martha Bellisle Jan. 18, 2022 01:06 PM EST

A group of cross country skiers glide along the freshly groomed trails at Cabin Creek Sno Park near Easton, Wash., on Dec. 19, 2021. When COVID-19 hit in the winter of 2020, many escaped cabin fever by hitting the ski trails and Nordic skis quickly became the new toilet paper – they were hard to find and sold out in stores. The ski boom has continued as the pandemic makes winter outdoor recreation appealing, but climate change means its future is uncertain. (AP Photo/Martha Bellisle)
Climate change makes the future of Nordic skiing uncertain

By Martha Bellisle Jan. 18, 2022 01:05 PM EST

Student activists wear masks with the colors of the pro-independence East Turkistan flag during a rally to protest the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, outside the Chinese Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Jan. 14, 2022. Dozens of students staged the rally demanding the cancellation of the Beijing Olympics over alleged human rights violations against Muslim Uyghur ethnic minority in China's region of Xinjiang. (AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana)
Olympic athletes urged by activists not to criticize China

By Graham Dunbar Jan. 18, 2022 11:56 AM EST

FILE - Women's snowboardcross gold medalist Michela Moioli, of Italy, celebrates during the medals ceremony at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Friday, Feb. 16, 2018. Defending Olympic gold medalists Sofia Goggia and Michela Moioli both come from the Bergamo area that was the first epicenter of COVID-19 in Europe. Goggia skis with a design of Bergamo's skyline on the back of her racing helmet. Moioli lost her grandmother to the virus. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
From Bergamo to Beijing, Italy aims for more Olympic success

By Andrew Dampf Jan. 17, 2022 05:18 AM EST

Italy's Sofia Goggia speeds down the course during an alpine ski, women's World Cup downhill race, in Zauchensee, Austria, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Giovanni Maria Pizzato)
Gut-Behrami wins downhill after Olympic champ Goggia crashes

Jan. 15, 2022 08:44 AM EST

FILE -Ryoyu Kobayashi of Japan soars through the air during his second trial jump at the third stage of the 70th Four Hills ski jumping tournament in Innsbruck, Austria, Monday, Jan. 3, 2022. Even World-class athletes who compete in ski jumping and a former Olympian paid to analyze the sport have no idea who will win gold in Beijing. Defending Olympic champion Kamil Stoch has an injured left leg that is knocking him out of World Cup competition this week in his native Poland and puts his status for the 2022 Winter Olympics up in the air. Japan's Ryoyu Kobayashi is the world's top-ranked ski jumper. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)
Japan’s Kobayashi among favorites in wide-open ski jumping

By Larry Lage Jan. 14, 2022 12:14 PM EST

FILE- Czech Republic's Ester Ledecka competes in the women's super-G at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Jeongseon, South Korea, Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018. Double Olympic champion Ester Ledecka will spearhead a record number of Czech athletes at the forthcoming Winter Olympics at Beijing 2022. Ledecka will defend her two gold medals from the 2018 Winter Games in Pyeongchang. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati, File)
Olympic champion Ledecka leads Czech team at Beijing Games

Jan. 14, 2022 11:30 AM EST

United States' Breezy Johnson speeds down the course during an alpine ski, women's World Cup super-G race in Val D'Isere, France, Sunday, Dec. 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)
Downhill racer Johnson skips World Cup meet with knee injury

Jan. 14, 2022 04:45 AM EST

FILE -Jarl Magnus Riiber of Norway celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win the men's Individual Gundersen NH 15km triple competition at the Nordic Combined World Cup in the Austrian province of Tyrol, in Seefeld, Austria, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2021. Norway’s Jarl Magnus Riiber has been so dominant in World Cup competitions that other Nordic combined athletes are trying to study how he soars past the competition in ski jumping so much so that he has a huge lead in cross-country skiing. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)
Norway’s Riiber dominant soaring, skiing into 2022 Olympics

By Larry Lage Jan. 13, 2022 12:27 PM EST

Carlo Janka from Switzerland announces the end of his sporting career during a press conference in Wengen, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022. Swiss skier Carlo Janka, once crowned the world’s best all-around men’s alpine racer, ended his injury-hit racing career on Thursday at his home country’s most storied venue. (Jean-Christophe Bott/Keystone via AP)
Ex-World Cup ski champion Carlo Janka retires due to injury

By Graham Dunbar Jan. 13, 2022 10:25 AM EST

Norway's Aleksander Aamodt Kilde celebrates at the finish area of an alpine ski, men's World Cup super G, in Wengen, Switzerland, Thursday, Jan. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Luciano Bisi)
Odermatt beats Kilde for super-G win in World Cup rivalry

By Graham Dunbar Jan. 13, 2022 08:49 AM EST

FILE - Eileen Gu, of China, competes in the finals of the women's slopestyle at a World Cup freestyle skiing event in Calgary, Alberta, Saturday, Feb. 15, 2020. David Wise is back at the Olympics looking for a third gold medal in men's freestyle halfpipe. Eileen Gu, born San Francisco and competing for China, has an even bigger ambition: winning three freestyle medals in a single Games. (Dave Chidley/The Canadian Press via AP, File)
Wise eyes a three-peat, Gu eyes history in freestyle skiing

By Will Graves Jan. 11, 2022 03:48 PM EST

United States' Mikaela Shiffrin speeds down the course during the first run of an alpine ski women's World Cup slalom, in Schladming, Austria, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)
Shiffrin wins record 47th slalom, Vlhova takes season title

Jan. 11, 2022 01:45 PM EST

FILE - Germany's Tim Tscharnke falls in front of Russia's Nikita Kriukov, right, after making contact with the skis of Finland's Sami Jauhojaervi in the men's classical-style final of the cross-country team sprint competitions at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Feb. 19, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. Olympic and World Cup race organizers are already used to needing snow-making equipment to create a ribbon of white through the forests as natural snowfall becomes less reliable. Skiers and experts say manmade snow has a higher moisture content, making it ice up quickly.(AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, File)
Climate change: Athletes flag the dangers of manmade snow

By Martha Bellisle Jan. 11, 2022 01:37 PM EST

FILE - Germany's Tim Tscharnke falls in front of Russia's Nikita Kriukov, right, after making contact with the skis of Finland's Sami Jauhojaervi in the men's classical-style final of the cross-country team sprint competitions at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Feb. 19, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. Olympic and World Cup race organizers are already used to needing snow-making equipment to create a ribbon of white through the forests as natural snowfall becomes less reliable. Skiers and experts say manmade snow has a higher moisture content, making it ice up quickly.(AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky, File)
Climate change: Athletes flag the dangers of manmade snow

By Martha Bellisle Jan. 11, 2022 12:19 PM EST

FILE - Norway's Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo, right, and Finland's Iivo Niskanen compete in the men's mass start 15km classic cross-country event at the FIS Tour de Ski in Val di Fiemme, Trento, Italy, Jan. 3, 2022. Klaebo was a rising star when he won three gold medals at PyeongChang. He has dominated the World Cup this season and will be back to defend his Olympic titles. Klaebo's teammates, Erik Valnes and Pål Golberg, will likely be in the mix. (AP Photo/Giovanni Auletta, File)
Olympic cross-country preview: US eager to build on success

By Martha Bellisle Jan. 11, 2022 11:33 AM EST

Olympic snowboard champ chooses quarantine over vaccine

Jan. 11, 2022 09:54 AM EST
BERN, Switzerland (AP) — Olympic snowboard champion Patrizia Kummer will head to the Beijing Games early to spend three weeks in quarantine because she isn’t...

FILE - Slovakia's Petra Vlhova competes during the first run of an alpine ski, World Cup women's slalom in Kranjska Gora, Slovenia, Sunday, Jan. 9, 2022. Vlhova is the reigning overall World Cup champion and won five of this season’s first six slaloms, a race Mikaela Shiffrin used to dominate. (AP Photo/Pier Marco Tacca, File)
All eyes will be on Shiffrin, unknown hill in Olympic Alpine

By Howard Fendrich Jan. 10, 2022 12:03 PM EST