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FILE - Switzerland's Marco Odermatt celebrates at finish area after winning an alpine ski, men's World Cup giant slalom race in Alta Badia, Italy, on Dec. 20, 2021. Looking for the Next Big Thing in Alpine skiing? Look no further than Marco Odermatt. The 24-year-old from Switzerland is a potential superstar who won five gold medals at the junior world championships in 2018 and is currently leading the overall World Cup standings. He’s a legitimate medal threat in three events at the upcoming Beijing Olympics with strong results in giant slalom, super-G and downhill this season. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati, File)
The new guy: Marco Odermatt is the Next Big Thing in skiing

By Andrew Dampf Jan. 24, 2022 07:40 AM EST

Switzerland's Beat Feuz speeds down the course during an alpine ski, men's World Cup downhill, in Kitzbuehel, Austria, Sunday, Jan. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati)
Beat Feuz wins at Kitzbühel in last downhill before Olympics

Jan. 23, 2022 09:27 AM EST

FILE - Aaron Blunck, of the United States, makes a run during halfpipe qualifying Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2021, at the U.S. Grand Prix freestyle skiing event at Copper Mountain, Colo. In a crash a year ago, Blunck lacerated his kidney, broke ribs, fractured his pelvis and bruised his heart. He's now a medal contender. (AP Photo/Hugh Carey, File)
Olympian Aaron Blunck finds peace after scary halfpipe crash

By Pat Graham Jan. 22, 2022 01:14 PM EST

Swiss snowboarder Patrizia Kummer works out in her hotel room in Beijing on Jan. 19, 2022 where is undergoing a 21 day quarantine. Three weeks alone in a hotel room is hardly an ideal setting for a snowboarder preparing for the Olympics. Kummer, a Swiss competitor who won a gold medal at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, is unvaccinated against the coronavirus by choice, so she is spending 21 days in isolation in China before the Winter Games begin in Beijing on Feb. 4. (Patrizia Kummer via AP)
In 3-week isolation, unvaccinated athlete waits for Olympics

By James Ellingworth Jan. 21, 2022 11:46 AM EST

Masked spectators arrive for the first round matches at the Australian Open tennis championships in Melbourne, Australia, Monday, Jan. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Hamish Blair)
Australian Open Men Singles

Jan. 16, 2022 09:30 PM 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

Winner Kaillie Humphries of USA on the podium after the Women's Monobob World Cup in St. Moritz, Switzerland, on Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022. (Mayk Wendt/Keystone via AP)
Americans win monobob race, points title in Switzerland

Jan. 15, 2022 07:42 AM 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 - United States players celebrate after winning the women's gold medal hockey game against Canada at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea, Feb. 22, 2018. The United States is the defending Olympic champion after beating Canada in an exceptionally nail-biting 3-2 shootout win at South Korea to end Canada's run of four gold medals. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)
U.S., Canada women eager to resume fierce hockey rivalry

By John Wawrow Jan. 12, 2022 01:57 PM 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 - Francois Carrard, FIFA Reform Committee Chairman, attends a news conference at the FIFA Headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, Dec. 3, 2015. The former longtime IOC director general Francois Carrard has died, the Olympic body said Monday, Jan. 10, 2022. He was 83. The International Olympic Committee said it was “deeply saddened” to learn of Carrard’s death. The cause was not specified. (Walter Bieri/Keystone via AP, file)
François Carrard, legal doyen of Olympic sports, dies at 83

Jan. 10, 2022 04:05 AM EST

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President Xi Jinping tours the National Speed Skating Oval, a competition venue for the 2022 Winter Olympics, in Beijing, Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2022. Competition for the Winter Olympics is scheduled to begin on Feb. 4. (Shen Hong/Xinhua via AP)
IOC assures teams Winter Olympics in Beijing will go ahead

By Graham Dunbar Jan. 05, 2022 02:15 PM EST

FILE - United States goalie Alex Cavallini, right, stops a shot from Canada's Brianne Jenner (19) during the second period of a women's exhibition hockey game ahead of the Beijing Olympics Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021, in Maryland Heights, Mo. USA Hockey has asked the International Ice Hockey Federation to reconsider canceling the women's under-18 world championship that was scheduled to take place in Sweden in January 2022. t’s the second consecutive year the tournament has been canceled after the 2021 event was scrapped because of the pandemic. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
US-Canada women's games off; US men forfeit at world juniors

By Stephen Whyno Dec. 28, 2021 04:59 PM EST

FILE - Natalia Nepryaeva of Russia competes during the women's 10 km free style race at the Davos Nordic FIS Cross Country World Cup in Davos, Switzerland, on Dec. 16, 2018. The 2022 Olympics is just weeks away with China a more problematic host than expected for a Winter Games that had once seemed destined for Europe. The past weekend of World Cup ski events in two upscale Swiss towns that wanted to stage these Olympics showed what might have been. Games in snow-covered resorts with decades of winter sports tradition and without diplomatic boycotts or talk of human rights records. (Gian Ehrenzeller/Keystone via AP, File)
Swiss ski resorts show what 2022 Olympics could have been

By Graham Dunbar Dec. 13, 2021 07:10 AM EST

Russia hit with triathlon sanctions in doping crackdown

Dec. 13, 2021 07:07 AM EST
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — World Triathlon imposed a package of sanctions on Russia on Monday after repeated doping cases, including one involving an athlete who...

Boxing body pledges reform to win back Olympic spot for 2028

Dec. 13, 2021 06:24 AM EST
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Boxing will reform a judging system tainted by manipulation to regain its place on the program for the 2028 Olympics, the president of...

FILE - China's Peng Shuai reacts during her first round singles match against Japan's Nao Hibino at the Australian Open tennis championship in Melbourne, Australia on Jan. 21, 2020. The head of the women’s professional tennis tour announced Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, that all WTA tournaments would be suspended in China because of concerns about the safety of Peng Shuai, a Grand Slam doubles champion who accused a former high-ranking government official in that country of sexual assault. (AP Photo/Andy Brownbill, File)
IOC says it had 2nd video call with tennis player Peng Shuai

Dec. 02, 2021 01:19 PM EST

Figure skating Grand Prix Final canceled over travel rules

Dec. 02, 2021 04:17 AM EST
LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — The figure skating Grand Prix Final next week has been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic for the second season in a row...

Switzerland's Lara Gut-Behrami competes during a women's World Cup giant slalom ski race Saturday, Nov. 27, 2021, Killington, Vt. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
Swiss officials warn COVID-19 rules threaten sports events

Nov. 30, 2021 01:18 PM EST