Olympics and Paralympics

US Olympic trials for curling get underway on the Iron Range
MPR News curlers Matt Mikus and Euan Kerr tell Cathy Wurzer about the sport of curling as the U.S. Olympic Curling Trials get underway in Eveleth, Minn.
Simone Biles says she wasn't going to let Larry Nassar take her joy away
"It was too much," Simone Biles said of enduring years of media coverage of disgraced former team doctor Larry Nassar. "But I was not going to let him take something I've worked for since I was 6 years old."
Gold medalist Gable Steveson having fun as he considers next move
Wrestler Gable Steveson has been on the go since his dramatic last-second victory to earn an Olympic gold medal. He could go to mixed martial arts, professional wrestling or head back to Minnesota to defend his NCAA heavyweight wrestling title.
1st Paralympic gold medal goes to Paige Greco of Australia
Australian cyclist Paige Greco has earned the first gold medal of the Tokyo Paralympics. She won the 3,000-meter pursuit on the track at the velodrome. It was the first of 24 gold medals up for grabs as the Paralympics got underway in the middle of a pandemic.
Paralympics open in empty stadium — just like Olympics
The Paralympics began Tuesday in the same empty National Stadium — during the same pandemic — as the opening and closing ceremonies of the recently completed Tokyo Olympics.
2021 Paralympics are here: Meet the Minnesota athletes
Fifteen athletes with Minnesota ties will compete in the Tokyo Paralympics games. They range in sports from basketball to swimming to judo. The action starts Tuesday.
U.S. rolls to women's hoops gold medal
Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi walked off the basketball court together, arm-in-arm, one last time at the Tokyo Games. They started their journey together five Olympics ago and ended it in the same fashion as always — with gold medals.