Women's sports
United States' Mikaela Shiffrin speeds down the course of an alpine ski, women's World Cup super-G race in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Gabriele Facciotti)
US names 222 to Olympic team; 4 athletes are 5-timers

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FILE - Chicago Red Stars goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher dives for the ball during a win in penalty kicks against the OL Reign in an NWSL Challenge Cup soccer match at Zions Bank Stadium, July 18, 2020, in Herriman, Utah. After a heartbreaking exit from the Tokyo Olympics, Naeher is back with the U.S. women's national team. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
Naeher back with US team after recovering from injury

By Anne M. Peterson 2 hrs ago

FILE - Ayumu Hirano, of Japan, makes a qualifying run on the halfpipe Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, during a U.S. Grand Prix snowboarding event at Copper Mountain, Colo. Long filled with potential, but only Ayumu Hirano's two silver medals to show for it over the past decade, a crew of Japanese riders appears poised to take over the halfpipe in Beijing with four bona fide gold-medal contender. (AP Photo/Hugh Carey, File)
Chairmen of the boards: Japanese team powerful in halfpipe

By Pat Graham 7 hrs ago

Sean McCann stares through a spotting scope at the targets 50 meters away during a Biathlon event at the Soldier Hollow Nordic Center biathlon shooting range, Monday, Oct. 25, 2021, in Midway, Utah. McCann is a clinical psychologist who works for the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee — one of seven assigned to various sports teams. At certain times of the year, he's “embedded” with the U.S. biathlon team to help them perform at their best. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Finding the 'happy bubble': Mental health key for Olympians

By Martha Bellisle 9 hrs ago

FILE - The Netherlands' Jorien Ter Mors competes during the women's 1500 meters race of the speed skating World Cup at the Minsk ice arena in Minsk, Belarus, Saturday, Nov. 16, 2019. Mors has retired from the sport. Ter Mors was the first female athlete to win Olympic medals in two disciplines at the same Winter Games. The 32-year-old speedskater won three long track gold medals and one short track bronze medal while competing at the 2014 and 2018 Olympics. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits, File)
Dutch speedskater Jorien ter Mors retires from the sport

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Kiana Kryeziu trains at the Arxhena Ski center in Dragas, Kosovo on Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022. The 17-year-old Kryeziu is the first female athlete from Kosovo at the Olympic Winter Games after she met the required standards, with the last races held in Italy. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu)
Olympic dreams come true for Kosovo skier Kiana Kryeziu

By Florent Bajrami And Llazar Semini 22 hrs ago

FILE - Gold medalist Australia's Scotty James jumps in the Men's Snowboard Halfpipe for the FIS Snowboard World Cup held in Chongli county near Zhangjiakou in northern China's Hebei province on Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019. Tucked away on a private halfpipe in Switzerland, Scotty James has been charting the future. He envisions the best tricks at this year’s biggest halfpipe contests as the kind that only he can perform. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)
44 Australians heading to Beijing for Winter Olympics

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Italy's Sofia Goggia looks at the course before an alpine ski, women's World Cup super-G race in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Gabriele Facciotti)
Goggia eyes return for Olympic downhill after latest crash

By Andrew Dampf Jan. 23, 2022 01:58 PM EST

FILE - From left to right, Netherlands' Dai Dai Ntab, Kai Verbij and Thomas Krol race during the men's team sprint competition at the world single distances speedskating championships Feb. 13, 2020, in Kearns, Utah. Krol believed he was going to the Olympics four years ago. The speedskater finished third at the Dutch trials, and then politics intervened. The national federation named Verbij to the team for Pyeongchang. Verbij was injured at the trials and unable to compete in the 1,000 meters, but he was chosen over Krol. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
Pressure on Dutch to continue winning ways at Olympic oval

By Beth Harris Jan. 23, 2022 11:10 AM EST

Annika Malacinski, left, and Alexa Brabec take part in a roller ski training session for the 2022 U.S. Olympic team for Nordic combined and ski jumping teams at Mount Van Hoevenberg Olympic Sports Complex in Lake Placid, N.Y., Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021. Even before the U.S. teams were set for Beijing Games, 20-year-old Annika Malacinski knew she had no shot at competing in China because she is a woman. Nordic combined, which combines ski jumping and cross-country skiing, is the only Olympic sport without gender equity. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)
It's men only in Nordic combined at the Olympics for now

By Larry Lage Jan. 23, 2022 10:51 AM EST

Natalie Geisenberger of Germany smiles after her second run of the Luge World Cup women race in Sigulda, Latvia, Sunday, Jan. 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Roman Koksarov)
Geisenberger gets 52nd career win in luge season finale

Jan. 23, 2022 09:05 AM EST

Italy's Elena Curtoni celebrates her first place on the podium of an alpine ski, women's World Cup super-G race in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Sunday, Jan. 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Alessandro Trovati)
Curtoni wins, Goggia crashes in mixed day for Italy ski team

Jan. 23, 2022 07:23 AM EST

Who me? Japan's Sena Tomita wins a Winter X Games gold

By Eddie Pells Jan. 22, 2022 08:44 PM EST
ASPEN, Colo. (AP) — Japan's Sena Tomita thought it was a mistake when they placed the gold medal around her neck. The 22-year-old halfpipe rider won...

Haein Lee of South Korea performs in the women free skating program during the ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Tallinn, Estonia, Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022. (AP Photo/Sergei Stepanov)
Japan's Mihara wins 2nd Four Continents figure skating title

Jan. 22, 2022 11:00 AM EST

FILE - Cammi Granato stands on center ice after being inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame before an NHL game between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Buffalo Sabres in Toronto, Nov. 6, 2010. Granato had never forgotten the young girl she lent her stick and gloves to during one of the former U.S. Olympian’s first hockey camps in Chicago in the late 1990s. It was not until years later when Granato discovered that girl just happened to be Hilary Knight. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Chris Young, File)
US women's hockey once again led by a shining Knight

By John Wawrow Jan. 22, 2022 03:44 AM EST

FILE - Adam Rippon of the United States reacts following his performance in the men's free figure skating final in the Gangneung Ice Arena at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Gangneung, South Korea, Saturday, Feb. 17, 2018. Rippon, who came out publicly in October 2015, was the first openly gay athlete to represent the United States in Olympic competition. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
Adam Rippon looks back at his role in 2018 Olympics

By Barry Wilner Jan. 22, 2022 03:12 AM EST

FILE - Scotty James, of Australia, rides during the men's snowboard halfpipe at the Phoenix Snow Park at he Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018. James has come a long way since his dad bought him a $10 snowboard from a shop that was using it as a doorstop. He’s won three world championship titles, six World Cup races and six Winter X medals, including three gold. (Jonathan Hayward/The Canadian Press via AP, File)
3 flips for Hirano but a 4th win for James at Winter X

By Eddie Pells Jan. 22, 2022 12:31 AM EST

FILE - Shaun White, of the United States, is shown after his third run in the snowboarding halfpipe finals, Sunday, Dec. 19, 2021, during the Dew Tour at Copper Mountain, Colo. Shaun White is likely heading to the Olympics for a fifth time. For the first time, the snowboarding star and three-time gold medalist on the halfpipe won't be the favorite. (AP Photo/Hugh Carey, File)
White 1 of 4 US snowboarders to defend Olympic titles

Jan. 21, 2022 06:43 PM EST

United States' Kai Owens watches scores after competing in the finals of a World Cup freestyle moguls competition at Deer Valley Resort in Park City, Utah, Friday, Jan. 14, 2022. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
Teen Kai Owens makes Olympic moguls team, returning to China

By Pat Graham Jan. 21, 2022 06:17 PM EST

United States' Mikaela Shiffrin looks at the scoreboard after completing an alpine ski women's World Cup slalom, in Schladming, Austria, Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Giovanni Maria Pizzato)
Shiffrin leads US Olympic ski team nominations; Nyman out

Jan. 21, 2022 03:58 PM EST