CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy — After years of preparation and planning, the Winter Olympics are getting underway Wednesday with the first curling matches in Cortina. Curling at the historic curling stadium — eight teams in mixed doubles — began two full days before the opening ceremony for ...
MILAN — Hockey was not televised, at least not for free, in France when Pierre-Edouard Bellemare was growing up there. The rare chance he got to watch the sport he loved came every four years at the Olympics. "I was born into this Olympic family where if you ever made the Olympics, it's an ...
MILAN — Norwegian skier Nikolai Schirmer on Wednesday handed the International Olympic Committee a petition signed by more than 21,000 people and professional athletes who want to stop fossil fuel companies from sponsoring winter sports. Schirmer delivered the "Ski Fossil Free" petition to ...
STAVELY, Alberta (AP) — Three Southern Alberta Mustangs junior hockey players were killed Monday in a vehicle crash while heading to practice. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said it responded to the crash at an intersection with Highway 2 in Stavely — about an hour's drive south of ...
LIV Golf received a boost on the eve of starting its fifth season when the Official World Golf Ranking approved the Saudi-funded league to receive ranking points for the first time. The unanimous decision Tuesday by the OWGR board came with some conditions, however. Points will be ...
Of course it would take those mischievous Minions to thrust what has become a yearslong musical nightmare for figure skaters into the global spotlight just days before they step onto the ice for the Milano Cortina Olympics. Spanish skater Tomas-Llorenc Guarino Sabate revealed this week that ...