'They are real hockey players now': Italy's performance in women's hockey could be transformative
Chris Jones reports from Milan.
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Skeleton-Flock leads at halfway hoping to erase 2018 pain
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb 13 : Austria's Janine Flock will go to bed on Friday dreaming of the Olympic glory that has proved so elusive after setting a track record and then backing it up with a battling second run to lead at the halfway point of the women's skeleton singles.
Figure skating-Stellato-Dudek bounces back from accident to prepare for Olympic debut at 42
MILAN, Feb 13 : Canada's Deanna Stellato-Dudek says the past two weeks have unfolded like "a nightmare" after a terrifying brush with disaster when she hit her head in training that almost obliterated her Olympic dream in a heartbeat.
Vladyslav Heraskevych exits Olympics with dream unfulfilled, but principles intact
Veteran sportswriter Richard Deitsch takes an international view of the Olympics.
Snowboarding-South Korea's Choi upsets Kim to claim women's halfpipe gold
LIVIGNO, Italy, Feb 12 : South Korea's Choi Ga-on denied American Chloe Kim a three-peat in the women's snowboard halfpipe at the Winter Olympics on Thursday, staging a stunning comeback from a crash to win gold on a snowy night in the Italian Alps.
Snowboarding-South Korea's Choi upsets Kim to win women's halfpipe gold
LIVIGNO, Italy, Feb 12 : Choi Ga-on of South Korea denied American Chloe Kim a historic three-peat in the women's halfpipe snowboard at the Winter Olympics on Thursday, staging a remarkable comeback after a frightening crash nearly knocked her out of the contest.
Alpine skiing-Brignone started as an underdog but the tiger took over
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb 12 : Federica Brignone said she was an underdog but the tiger took over as the Italian roared to an astonishing super-G gold medal on home snow at the Milano Cortina Olympics on Thursday.
Alpine skiing-Johnson misses a medal but gets a ring and a fiance
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb 12 : Olympic downhill champion Breezy Johnson ended up with an engagement ring instead of a medal on Thursday after crashing out of the women's super-G at the Milano Cortina Games and then saying yes to her fiance.