Tag: Alpine Skiing

Ski Racer Nina O’Brien’s Crazy Fast Comeback From an Olympic Crash

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Before she could think about walking normally, she had to practice using the small muscles in her calf to rotate her foot once again. The idea of pointing her foot and jamming it into a ski boot — a miserable experience for recreational skiers who wear relatively soft and flexible boots but a whole other level of awful for elite ski racers — seemed preposterous. She returned to Dartmouth, where she attends college in the off-season. She limped around campus, went to physical therapy nearly every day and tried to…

Olympics Schedule Tonight: Watch Skiing and Women’s Hockey

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The U.S. broadcast coverage of the 2022 Winter Games continues on Wednesday with medal events in Alpine skiing and women’s hockey, as curling continues. All times are Eastern. FREESTYLE SKIING The qualification round in women’s halfpipe will air live at 8:30 p.m. on USA Network and Peacock, with a portion also airing live on NBC. Brita Sigourney, the 2018 Olympic bronze medalist, will lead the American group of contenders with Hanna Faulhaber. Eileen Gu of China, who won silver in the slopestyle event, is also a strong medal contender. The…

Downhill Men’s Skiing Race Postponed Because of High Winds

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The men’s downhill race at the Beijing Olympics on Sunday was postponed a day because of high winds, conditions that had contributed to competitors’ unease about a high-speed dash down an icy, unfamiliar racecourse. After several delays to Sunday’s scheduled start and a meeting at the base of the mountain with leaders of the local organizing committee, the F.I.S., which is skiing’s world governing body, and the Olympic Broadcasting System, organizers announced that the race will take place at noon on Monday between the first and second heats of the…

Breezy Johnson Will Miss the Olympics With Injured Knee

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The American ski racer Breezy Johnson, a top contender for a gold medal at next month’s Beijing Olympics in the women’s downhill, said on Monday that she would not compete in the Games because of torn right knee cartilage she sustained in the second of two high-speed training crashes this month. Saying she was heartbroken, Johnson conceded that she contemplated trying to race despite the condition of her injured knee. “But the doctors told me I could do a lot more damage,” Johnson said in a telephone interview from Germany.…

Skier Mikaela Shiffrin is Back on Top and Headed to the Olympics

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Thursday afternoon, roughly one month from the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony, Mikaela Shiffrin was still a bit out of breath from a slalom training session in Austria. But it felt good, and not just because Shiffrin, an eight-time Olympic and world champion, is once again atop the Alpine World Cup overall standings. “I finally feel like myself again,” she said in a phone interview. Ten weeks ago, as she sat in the kitchen of her Colorado home, Shiffrin all but predicted her comeback after nearly two years mourning the accidental…