Lindsey Vonn: The US skiing sensation who became the face of winter sports
US skiing sensation Lindsey Vonn doesn’t regret her career in the slightest, but it has come at a cost.
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Winter Olympics 2022 - Simone Biles and Lindsey Vonn show support for Mikaela Shiffrin after another tough moment
“I don’t know how to handle it” admitted Mikaela Shiffrin, after crashing out of her second successive event on Alpine skiing’s biggest stage — but fellow athletes like gymnast star Simone Biles are rallying around her. The American failed to finish the first slalom run at the Winter Olympics, days after suffering the same fate in the giant slalom, and there are now questions about whether she will continue to compete in Beijing.
JUEGOS DE INVIERNO Tsunami en el esquí femenino
Cinco segundos en pista… Mikaela Shiffrin de nuevo fuera. Eliminada en la primera manga del eslalon, tras salirse de la línea, Adiós también a la combinada. La leyenda estadounidenses de 26 años, campeona olímpica en Sochi (eslalon) y Pyeongchang (gigante), se quedaba sin metal en Pekín, Juegos a los que venía decidida a llevarse tres medallas de oro para aumentar su botín total de preseas a seis (fue plata en combinada en Corea. Sin embargo, la esquiadora de Colorado se va de vacío y con la sensación de fracaso ya que ni siquiera ha sido capaz de finalizar una manga en la capital de China.
PREVIEW-Alpine skiing-All eyes on Shiffrin in the giant slalom
YANQING, China : American Mikaela Shiffrin's rivals see her as the skier to beat when the women's Alpine programme at the Beijing Olympics gets underway with the giant slalom on Monday, but that does not mean they will give up without a fight.
Mikaela Shiffrin, Yuzuru Hanyu, Ester Ledecka and more – 7 global stars set to light up Beijing
The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic Games start on Friday and you can watch every moment on discovery+ and across Eurosport platforms. Four years after Pyeongchang the best winter athletes in the world have gathered in Asia once more for the chance to write their names into the history books. Ad/> For some this might be their first experience of that unique spectacle that is an Olympics, for others it is their swansong.
Winter Olympics: Beijing seals off more residential areas after reports of 12 total COVID-19 cases
Two-time Olympic cross-country skier Noah Hoffman joined 'America's Newsroom' to discuss the upcoming games as athletes are warned against speaking out against China's human rights abuses.
Bodybuilder Rene Campbell wants to change the view of what women should look like
By Noura Abou Zeinab, for CNNUpdated 1143 GMT (1943 HKT) December 2, 2020(CNN)Counterpointed by a number of striking tattoos, hers is a body defined by muscle. She is a mother of two who embodies power and strength.Rene Campbell has dedicated most of her life to sculpting her once diminutive frame into one that, she says, goes «completely against what society thinks a woman should look like.»The bodybuilder's dedication has brought plenty of awards but building her dream body — gaining over 85 pounds, going from a UK size 8 to 14 — has had its challenges, too, both physically and mentally. «I was very insecure about my body image, very insecure about myself as a person,»
Japan's sumo wrestlers: Meet the women changing the face of the sport
By Emiko Jozuka, Don Riddell and Daniel Campisi, CNNUpdated 0913 GMT (1713 HKT) January 5, 2022Nagoya, Japan (CNN)With a steely look, Senna Kajiwara charges headlong into her opponent.The two pre-teen girls grapple for a dozen seconds before Kajiwara ousts her rival from the ring.At this sumo tournament, no loincloth-clad men are competing for the title of «grand champion.» Instead, girls aged between 8 and 12 are going head-to-head and step-by-step changing the future of Japan's male-dominated national sport.«Some people are surprised and even shocked when they find out I do sumo. They tend to think that sumo is just for boys and men,» Kajiwara told CNN Sport.«I think if we get more girls and women in sumo then we'll be able to level the