by admin | Feb 10, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Skeleton is a heart-racing, adrenaline-fueled event where a single racer flies face first down a frozen track — sometimes going more than 80 mph, belly first on a sled. Kelly Curtis is the first to say this sport is “crazy.” That doesn’t make her...
by admin | Feb 10, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Russian dynamo Kamila Valieva, 15, made history this week by being the first female skater to land a quadruple jump in the Olympics. A few days later, her team made headlines again with reports that one of their athletes had failed a doping test, delaying the medal...
by admin | Feb 10, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Struggling U.S. skier Mikaela Shiffrin is cutting out interviews at the Beijing Winter Olympics. After disqualifications in the giant slalom and slalom generated controversial TV coverage that included a raw interview with NBC, the two-time gold medalist issued a...
by admin | Feb 10, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Chloe Kim has continued her dominance on the halfpipe. The champion claimed her second gold medal on Thursday, becoming the first woman to ever win multiple gold medals in the women’s event since it became an Olympic sport in 1998. Kim last won gold during the 2018...
by admin | Feb 9, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis became the first American gold medalist at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, jumping to an early lead and holding on to win the women’s snowboardcross on Wednesday. Sixteen years after falling in the homestretch of the inaugural Olympic...
by admin | Feb 9, 2022 | Representation, SEW
The 15-year-old figure-skating sensation whose unprecedented quad jumps powered Russia to the team figure skating gold at the Beijing Winter Olympics was reported today to have failed a drug test before competition. The report from the Inside the Games news website...
by admin | Feb 9, 2022 | Representation, SEW
In the four years since Ester Ledecka made Olympic history with gold medals in both skiing and snowboarding, she conceded she’s thought about slowing down a little. Maybe even — dare she say — neglect her snowboard a bit to focus more on the skiing...
by admin | Feb 9, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Skier Darya Dolidovich has fled Belarus after being barred from competing in the Winter Olympics over accusations regarding her involvement with the country’s opposition movement. The 17-year-old cross-country skier’s International Ski Federation (FIS)...
by admin | Feb 9, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Women’s ski jumping grabbed the headlines Tuesday at the Winter Olympics, although not for reasons the athletes might have liked after five women were disqualified from the new mixed team event. Among them were Germany’s Katharina Althaus, a two-time Olympian who...
by admin | Feb 9, 2022 | Representation, SEW
NBC’s reporting on Mikaela Shiffrin’s second straight skiing disqualification at the Beijing Winter Olympics has some fans comparing the coverage to Simone Biles’ struggles at the Summer Olympics. And not in a good way. Shiffrin missed a gate early in the slalom...
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