Paralympics fans had difficult time, changes may not happen
As the world’s top disabled athletes competed on ice and snow, Erica Mitchell steered through her own obstacle course on Pyeongchang’s narrow and uneven streets. Read more
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North Korean defector hits Paralympic ice for South Korea
The most talked-about athlete in the Paralympics barely plays, but who cares? The diminutive but hard-nosed reserve forward on South Korea’s sled hockey team proudly admits he’s just happy to be here. Read more
Oksana Masters took long road from Ukrainian orphanage to Paralympic stardom
Twenty years ago, it would have been hard to imagine 8-year-old Oksana Masters — 3 feet tall, 35 pounds, no thumbs and misshapen legs — included in an NBC montage of the world’s best athletes, or having her face plastered on train station posters. Read more
Winter Paralympics open in cheery mood
The opening ceremony of the biggest Winter Paralympics yet unfolded Friday night with a glittering performance that championed a world of coexistence where differences are embraced and understood. Read more
U.S. women’s hockey team looks to continue momentum after gold
Twenty years after a cereal box changed her life, Meghan Duggan is pictured on one. Read more
Do you have what it takes to be an Olympian?
Becoming the most decorated Winter Olympics athlete in history requires snow, fortitude, technique, squats, more squats and more. Read more
North Korean delegation returns home after Olympics outreach
North Korea’s delegation to the closing ceremony of the Winter Olympics left South Korea on Tuesday after a visit where the former general suspected of masterminding deadly 2010 military attacks told Seoul officials the North is willing to talk with Washington. Read more
Pyeongchang breathes, bids Olympics farewell
From volunteers to support staff to the joint Korea women’s hockey team, people from many cultures bid farewell to each other and to the 2018 Winter Olympics today as a swath of the eastern Korean Peninsula readied itself for something novel: relative normalcy. Read more
South Korea’s Moon faces big decisions to keep Olympic peace
With a two-hour spectacle of drones and K-Pop on Sunday, South Korean President Moon Jae-in celebrated the end of a Winter Olympic Games that fostered a fragile peace with North Korea. Now, he’s got to make it last. Read more
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Oodles of oohs and ughs in the Pyeongchang Games
Wind, snow, ice or shine, the Winter Games had its share of golden moments that will forever be etched in Olympic lore. Read more
In political end to Olympics, North Korea offers talks with U.S.
The overtly political 2018 Winter Olympics closed tonight very much as they began, with humanity’s finest athletes marching exuberantly across the world stage as three nations with decades of war and suspicion among them shared a VIP box — and a potential path away from conflict. Read more
Russians win hockey gold with overtime win over Germany
The Russians triumphed in the no-NHL tournament where they were favored, winning the men’s hockey gold medal at a Winter Olympics where they couldn’t even be called Team Russia, use their colors or celebrate while listening to their anthem. Read more
Most Olympians will never get rich, and that’s OK with them
You see them everywhere after the Olympics, the beaming faces and chiseled physiques of superstar athletes on everything from cereal boxes to athletic shoe ads. Read more
Sweden pickles Korea’s ‘Garlic Girls’ for curling gold
If the Korean women’s curling team thought winning an Olympic silver medal was fun, wait until they get their mobile phones back. Read more
As Olympics wrap up, still no coverage in North Korea
While hundreds of millions of the world’s people get ready to watch the closing ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics on Sunday, North Koreans are still waiting to see the first event. Read more
IOC upholds ban of Russia through Winter Games
The International Olympic Committee on Sunday upheld the ban of Russia from the Pyeongchang Winter Games because of doping, denying the 168 athletes competing here as “Olympic Athletes from Russia” the right to march in the opening ceremony under their country’s flag. Read more
Enormous lines for Olympic souvenirs
All Amber Batchelder wanted was a postcard. Read more
Ivanka Trump to push for ‘maximum pressure’ on North Korea
U.S. President Donald Trump’s daughter toured the 2018 Winter Olympics on Saturday, the morning after telling South Korea’s president that she will use her visit to the Pyeongchang Games to advocate maximum pressure on North Korea to halt its nuclear program. Read more
Russia the awkward guest at Pyeongchang Olympics
Despite the country being barred from the Winter Olympics, Russian athletes and fans showed up and had a good time. Read more
Team USA? More Like Team Minnesota
From Warroad, the little town near the Canadian border with a lengthy Olympic hockey heritage, to the Twin Cities and farther south, lights stayed on well into Thursday morning in Minnesota as the U.S. women’s hockey team, with seven Minnesotans on the roster, beat Canada, 3-2, in a shootout for the gold medal to end 20 years of Olympic frustration. Read more
Olympics cross-country skiers eat 8,000 calories a day
Cross-country skier Martin Moeller of Denmark says that he eats so much as part of his training regimen he gets tired of it. And he’s not the only one. Read more
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