Winter Olympics-related stories
The first black athlete to win an individual gold medal at the Winter Olympics, Shani Davis should be showered by this kind of adoration as he closes his career. He won’t let it. He never has and history will remember him as much for the controversy he inspired over the years as his triumphs on the ice. Read more
Getting bidders for the Olympics used to be easy. But no longer, and particularly for the Winter Games. Six European cities pulled out of official bids or possible bids when the IOC sought candidates a few years ago for the 2022 Winter Olympics. Cities balked over soaring costs, political unrest or a lack of public support as expressed in referendums. Read more
Alexa Scimeca-Knierim and husband and pairs partner Chris Knierim helped the U.S. win bronze medals in team figure skating at the Winter Olympics on Sunday. But before they trekked to Pyeongchang, South Korea, they revealed what life has been like for them behind the scenes. Read more
Shaun White has apologized after dismissing the sexual misconduct allegations made against him in a 2016 lawsuit as “gossip” shortly after winning his third Olympic gold medal in the men’s halfpipe today. Read more
They’ve got Olympic-size dreams, and when they watch figure skating at the Pyeongchang Games, they’ve got plenty of role models — a history-making U.S. figure skating team where half of the 14 members are Asian-American. Read more
Shaun White put together an epic final run to claim his third gold medal in Olympic men’s halfpipe, slicing through the gray South Korean sky on Wednesday. Read more
Chloe Kim was at the top of snowboard’s halfpipe, the final competitor in the final run of the three-run finals, and the gold was hers. She could play it safe, mess around, have some fun. Or she could establish her dominance over the sport. At 17. Read more
Katie Couric has apologized for comments that she made during NBC’s coverage of the Olympics opening ceremony that the Dutch are so successful in speed skating because skates have been used as a form of transportation when canals freeze in the Netherlands. Read more
Tyler George keeps a pair of 8-year-old Skechers that he has worn into oblivion at curling tournaments all over the world. Now, they are with him at the 2018 Winter Olympics in all their tattered glory. George loves them, needs them, cherishes them. His teammates tolerate them. Read more
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Body image problems among women in aesthetic sports have long been acknowledged, if not reckoned with. Among male skaters, though, body issues are more of an open secret, less likely to be addressed publicly by the competitors but evident to anyone in their world. Read more
When Song Hong used to tell his grandchildren about his childhood, he would joke that they were “country folks” from a rugged and rural corner of the world that none of their fellow Americans had ever heard of, or likely ever would. Read more
NBC is attracting about 24 million viewers a night to its Winter Olympics coverage from South Korea. While that’s down about 6 percent from four years ago, it means the network is meeting its guarantee to advertisers and won’t have to give away costly make-goods, a problem that hurt the telecast of the Summer Olympics two years ago. Airtime set aside for possible make goods can now be sold. Read more
The wonderful thing about the inspiring — shall we call it Olympian? — story of Mirai Nagasu is that it’s not over. Read more
Gold medal already in hand and Olympic dream fully realized, Chloe Kim could have turned her third and final run in the women’s snowboarding final into a victory lap. Read more
To say the Winter Olympics are not racially diverse is like noting the weather in Pyeongchang is cold. This is not surprising. Read more
Three events into the Olympic speedskating competition and the Americans remain off the podium. Read more
Monday among staff and volunteers at the Pyeongchang Olympics, organizers said, bringing the outbreak’s total to 194 cases. Read more
The Korean women’s hockey team is going through some growing pains. Read more
At mid-ice, the Canadians gathered for a group huddle that turned into a massive hug. Read more
Jamie Anderson finished her run, glanced up at the scoreboard and stuck out her tongue for the world to see, a gesture not made out of frustration but simple relief. The American snowboarding star had reached the bottom of wind-whipped Phoenix Snow Park in the women’s slopestyle finals intact and upright. Read more
The moment was too important to be overshadowed by a loss. Read more
