Team GB faces a tough challenge to win an Olympic medal in the four-man bobsled as they sit seventh at the halfway point in a race where three teams crashed. Pilot Brad Hall demonstrated why the British team is a medal contender with a brilliant first run of 54.39 seconds in Cortina, which saw him…
American Kelly Humphries Armbruster, in perhaps her Olympic bobsled final, moved into medal contention for a record sixth time in the two-woman bobsled on Saturday, while Germany’s Laura Nolte again won gold. Nolte is now a back-to-back two-woman Olympic bobsled champion, having won the gold medal behind her teammate Lisa Buckwitz. at the Milan Cortina…
After claiming an emotional Olympic gold, Mikaela Shiffrin’s thoughts turned to one man who wasn’t there — her father, Jeff. The American crossed the line as Olympic slalom champion, as she did 12 years earlier in Sochi at the age of 18. Only this time, as he hugged his mother and coaches, he missed his…
Mikaela Shiffrin’s Olympic drought continues after missing the podium at the Milano Cortina Games. The women’s giant slalom finished 11th on Sunday. The US standouts had a combined time of 2:14.42. His racing was clean but not fast enough to challenge for a podium finish. After his second race he showed no outward signs of disappointment,…
American ski star Lindsey Vonn has reportedly been released from hospital in Italy. nearly a week after a horrific accident ended her Olympic comeback. Vonn, 41, was airlifted from the piste after crashing just 13 seconds into her final race at the women’s downhill final in Cortina last Sunday (February 8). Team USA athletes reported…
American skier Breezy Johnson told CBS News that she is treating her replacement gold medal carefully after the original medal, which she won in the women’s downhill at the incident-ridden 2026 Winter Games on Saturday in Italy, broke down. “I think because they were so heavy, the ribbons couldn’t really hold them up,” Johnson said, calling it…
The Washington Post is making one-third of its employees redundant. In the headline, the bosses have said that the American newspaper The Washington Post is making one-third of its employees redundant. The long-rumoured layoffs, affecting nearly all areas of the newsroom, were confirmed to employees in a video conference Wednesday. Subsequently, he received emails with…
