abc7.com - 13 Feb 2014 SOCHI, Russia (KABC) -- The women's skeleton competition helped Team USA tie up the medal count Friday at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. In the women's skeleton, American Noelle Pikus-Pace claimed silver, Elizabeth Yarnold of Britain snagged the ...
Insidethegames.biz - 14 Feb 2019
The date of February 14 is particularly significant in Olympic history given its quadrennial associations with deeds achieved at the Winter Games.
KBZK Bozeman News - 01 Feb 2019
Here's some background information about the Winter Olympics, which are held every four years. The 2022 Winter Olympics are scheduled to be held February ...
Salt Lake Tribune - 17 Feb 2019
Blair Tomten's home has neutral tones in the living room and an abundance of artwork on the walls. It's warm, inviting and full of things. And not a single one ...
The Independent - 16 Oct 2018
Two-time Olympic champion Lizzy Yarnold will remain outspoken about anti-doping following her retirement from skeleton. Yarnold, 30 on October 31, returned ...
The Local Sweden - 13 Jun 2018
Latvia's government on Tuesday adopted a resolution allowing Riga to help Stockholm in its bid to host the 2026 Winter Olympics, namely by giving the Swedish ...
Olympics - 17 Feb 2018
Yarnold became the first British athlete to defend an Olympic Winter Games title, as well as the most decorated British winter Olympian, with her victory.
TeamUSA.org - 28 Dec 2018
If you were a little groggy throughout the daylight hours in February, you weren't alone. And you were certainly justified. Team USA gave fans back home plenty ...
The Washington Post - 08 Feb 2018
Q: What is luge? Luge is one of three sliding sports at the Games (bobsled and skeleton are the others). It's similar to skeleton but feet first and on your back.
Associated Press - 20 Nov 2018
A season of change for the three U.S. international sliding programs has arrived. It's an every-four-year reset. The cycle never seems to differ much: In the ...
BBC Sport - 23 Jan 2018
Competitors - known as sliders - hurtle headfirst down the ice course on a sled little bigger than a tea-tray. The fastest combined time of each slider's four runs ...
Chicago Tribune - 06 Dec 2017
The focus nearly four years ago on the side of a Russian mountain, as the final sled whooshed by, fell to the clock. Katie Uhlaender, a blue-blooded American ...
NPR - 10 Jan 2018
Olympic skeleton racers' chins rest an inch or two above the ice. "Obviously, you don't want your face scraping across the ice 'cause it does slow you down," ...
The Denver Post - 01 Feb 2018
For three years Breckenridge's Katie Uhlaender lived with the heartache of missing a medal at the 2014 Sochi Olympics by four hundredths of a second, but her ...
The Associated Press - 19 Oct 2018
Jamie Greubel Poser, who won a bronze medal at the 2014 Sochi Games and was a two-time member of the U.S. Olympic women's bobsled team, retired Friday ...
Olympics - 17 Feb 2018
On a day with something to suit everyone, the medal action kicks off with the free programme in the men's figure skating and the women's super-G, and draws to ...
Olympics - 19 Mar 2018
Great Britain's Lizzie Yarnold produced a quicksilver fourth run at the Alpensia Sliding Centre to become the first athlete to retain the Olympic women's skeleton ...
AZCentral - 03 Feb 2018
Matt Antoine came to Phoenix for one reason and stayed for another. A 2014 Winter Olympic medalist in skeleton, Antoine was ready for a new training home ...
Olympics - 14 Dec 2017
Germany's Jacqueline Lölling enjoyed a truly memorable 2017, scooping European and World Championship golds and the World Cup title. A breakthrough star ...
The Independent - 12 Feb 2018
Laura Deas outshone Great Britain team-mate and reigning Olympic champion Lizzy Yarnold during women's skeleton training in Pyeongchang on Monday.
