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Olympics Sport News
Canada's Mark McMorris stretchered off hill after fall in pre-Olympic snowboard training
Canada's three-time Olympic bronze-medal snowboarder Mark McMorris crashed Wednesday night during big air training for the Milan Cortina Games and had to be taken off the course on a stretcher.
Canadian pole vaulter Alysha Newman issued provisional suspension for whereabouts failures
Canadian pole vaulter and Olympic bronze medallist Alysha Newman has been provisionally suspended by the Athletics Integrity Unit for Whereabouts Failures.
Canadian figure skaters moving ahead without Stellato-Dudek in Olympic team event
Canada's Lia Pereira and Trennt Michaud skated circles around an empty sheet of ice as "Carmina Burana" boomed from the arena's loudspeakers during a practice session Wednesday.
Public Enemy re-imagines classic song to honour female athletes
LIVIGNO, Italy, Feb 4 : Hip-hop group Public Enemy enlisted Olympians to help re-imagine one of its 1990s hits as a tribute to female athletes just as the Milano Cortina Winter Games get underway.
NFL-Super Bowl-bound Diggs confident Olympic skier Vonn can conquer ACL injury
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb 4 : New England Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs expressed confidence that American skiing great Lindsey Vonn can compete at the Milano Cortina Olympics despite a ruptured ACL, drawing on his own experience with the devastating injury.
Alpine skiing-Norway's Monsen to rejoin Alpine squad after fall
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb 4 : Norway's downhiller Marte Monsen will rejoin their women's Olympic Alpine squad in Cortina d'Ampezzo on Thursday after a crash in Switzerland last weekend, the national team said.
Curling-Britain defeat rivals Norway as mixed doubles launches Games
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy, Feb 4 : Britain emerged victorious in an early meeting between two major medal contenders in the mixed doubles curling tournament at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics, beating Norway 8-6 as competition at the Games got under way on Wednesday.