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Mikaela Shiffrin is shut out of medals in slalom at Winter Olympics

Mikaela Shiffrin is shut out of medals in slalom at Winter Olympics

Mikaela Shiffrin was trying to win a third gold -- and defend the gold medal she won in Sochi. But she was edged off of the podium at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.

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Haga dusts field to win 10K freestyle; Afton's Diggins finishes 5th

Haga dusts field to win 10K freestyle; Afton's Diggins finishes 5th

Jessie Diggins finished in fifth place, less than four seconds out of medal contention. Hoping to become the first American woman to win a medal in cross-country skiing, Diggins now has three top-six finishes at the Olympics.
by The Associated Press

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'You don't hold back': Mikaela Shiffrin wins gold at 2018 Winter Olympics

'You don't hold back': Mikaela Shiffrin wins gold at 2018 Winter Olympics

It was a hard-won medal, on a day where 20 racers crashed out of the course as they tried to carve out time and move up the leaderboard.

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Minnesota Olympians to watch on Thursday

Minnesota Olympians to watch on Thursday

Skiers Wiley Maple and Jessie Diggins will race Thursday, while the men's curling team will face off against Italy and then Sweden. The women's curling team will take on Switzerland.
by Matt Mikus

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Finland takes Olympic chill to the next level: team knitting

Finland takes Olympic chill to the next level: team knitting

During the weekend's slopestyle competition, Finnish snowboarding coach Antti Koskinen was casually knitting at the top of the course.

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Powerful winds delay more Olympic skiing events and force park's closure

Powerful winds delay more Olympic skiing events and force park's closure

The wind blew apart a large temporary tent and toppled a security scanner. A moveable fence was also knocked over - and all of those descriptions apply to just one block.
by Elise Hu

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White apologizes for comments on sexual misconduct lawsuit

White apologizes for comments on sexual misconduct lawsuit

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 on Wednesday.
by Associated Press

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Shaun White wins 3rd Olympic gold in contest for the ages

Shaun White wins 3rd Olympic gold in contest for the ages

Snowboarding at the Olympics turned 20 this year, and there's a good chance that in another two decades, people will still be talking about the contest that went down in the mountains of South Korea on Wednesday. They will definitely still be talking about Shaun White.
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Afton's Jessie Diggins finishes 6th in Olympic cross-country sprint

Afton's Jessie Diggins finishes 6th in Olympic cross-country sprint

Diggins reached the finals after beating out Natalia Nepryaeva, an Olympic athlete from Russia, in a photo finish in the second semifinal heat. Diggins had the fourth-fastest time overall in the semifinals. She was more than 11 seconds behind the leader in the finals.
by The Associated Press

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