by admin | Jan 20, 2022 | Representation, SEW
After Chloe Kim returned home from the 2018 Olympics in South Korea, she put her gold medal in what felt at the time like the right place: a trash bin at her parents’ house. “I hated life,” Kim, now 21, recalls over plates of pad thai in the airy four-bedroom home in...
by admin | Jan 18, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Shim Suk-Hee, South Korea’s top short track speed skater, will reportedly miss the Beijing Winter Olympics after losing an appeal to lift a ban over reported text messages where she disparaged teammates. Last fall, the four-time Olympic medalist was removed from the...
by admin | Jan 18, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The last few seconds are brutal. They are supposed to be. No matter how much or how hard Jessie Diggins trains, she never expects to feel good when she pushes toward her absolute limit at the end of a race. Sometimes she squeezes so much out of her body that her...
by admin | Jan 18, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The Shiffrins discovered the lyrics on a wedding program in the pocket of an old tuxedo. They had been printed 25 years ago, read aloud at the ceremony and forgotten. Mikaela Shiffrin—easily the most accomplished competitive skier still active; perhaps, one day, the...
by admin | Jan 17, 2022 | Representation, SEW
U.S. women’s ski jumpers failed to qualify any spots for the Beijing Winter Olympics, a notable absence for the nation that helped lead the fight for women’s ski jumping’s inclusion in the Games. The International Ski Federation posted the final Olympic quota...
by admin | Jan 17, 2022 | Representation, SEW
American Kaillie Humphries got a win. Elana Meyers Taylor got an overall title. And the U.S. bobsled team got more momentum to take into the Beijing Olympics. Humphries prevailed in the final women’s monobob race of the season on Saturday, with Meyers Taylor finishing...
by admin | Jan 13, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Biathlon is the only winter sport in which an American has yet to capture an Olympic medal. Aiming to change that next month are the eight biathletes who were officially named Sunday to Team USA’s 2022 Olympic roster, with five returnees and three aligning...
by admin | Jan 12, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The 2022 Winter Olympic Games are less than a month away, and as athletes secure the final spots on Team USA, Kai Owens is getting more and more hopeful about making it to Beijing. See, the already-exciting honor of representing her country comes with a special bonus...
by admin | Jan 12, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Mikaela Shiffrin won the last women’s World Cup slalom before the Beijing Olympics on Tuesday, while her Slovakian rival Petra Vlhova locked up the season title in the discipline. Racing on the challenging Planai course, the American improved from fifth place,...
by admin | Jan 11, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Erin Jackson wasn’t going to miss a chance at Olympic gold if her teammate could do anything about it. Jackson, the world’s top ranked woman in the 500 meter event for speed skating, slipped during U.S. Olympic trials in Milwaukee — costing her one of two...
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