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Snowboard sensation Chloe Kim is your next Olympic hero
For snowboard star Chloe Kim, dropping into the halfpipe is far less daunting than grasping how to be American and Korean at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.
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Chloe Kim's rise from X Games to Winter Games
Three years ago, snowboarder Chloe Kim was good enough for the Olympics but not old enough. Now, the teenage phenom will make her Olympic debut in South Korea, her parents' homeland.
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Confidential: Athletes weigh in on Winter Olympics 2018
From their favorite for flag bearer to the changes they'd champion, 105 Olympians (men and women) weigh in on the Games' biggest issues -- and don't always see eye to eye.
Olympic Sports
Australian Olympic snowboarder Pullin dies at 32
Australian two-time world champion snowboarder Alex Pullin drowned Wednesday while spearfishing off a Gold Coast beach.
Olympic Sports
Star snowboarder Seb Toutant takes quarantine boredom to new heights with #sebtootschallenge
Bouncing a pingpong ball into a roll of toilet paper without looking. Doing pushups on a stack of Red Bull cans. Olympic champion snowboarder Sebastien Toutant can do these things. So, he wants to know: Can you?
Olympic Sports
Poppen, inventor of the snowboard, dies at 89
Sherman Poppen, the snowboard inventor who laid the groundwork for a multibillion-dollar industry, has died. He was 89.
Olympic Sports
Olympic silver medal snowboarder beats cancer
Canada's Max Parrot, who won silver at the 2018 Winter Olympics, will return to action next month after declaring that he had beaten cancer.
Snowboarding
Snowboarder Anne-Flore Marxer's caramelized banana and chia seed oatmeal
Need a healthy, hearty breakfast that can be made in a tiny kitchen? This dish fits the bill.
Snowboarding
Hockey player Kendall Coyne Schofield's overnight oats recipe
Olympic veteran Kendall Coyne Schofield is breaking barriers on the ice -- and already training hard for 2022. She shared the morning meal that she has perfected.
Skiing
Chloe Kim says ankle broken, will need surgery
Olympic champion snowboarder Chloe Kim said she broke her ankle at the Burton U.S. Open this weekend and will need surgery.
Snowboarding
Snowboarder Maddie Mastro's peanut butter energy bites
Olympian Maddie Mastro calls these "POWer Balls" -- and she takes them with her whenever she needs something to eat on the go.
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'A lot of athletes feel trapped': Jamie Anderson and other snow athletes denounce FIS president
After FIS President Gian-Franco Kasper denied climate change and praised dictatorships, American snowboard and ski athletes are calling for his resignation.
Snowboarding
Slopestyle final nixed; medals based on qualifiers
The worlds slopestyle finals were canceled Sunday due to strong wind gusts, which led organizers to base the women's and men's medalists on the qualifying rounds.
Snowboarding
Kim wins worlds, nearly lands daunting trick
Chloe Kim added a world championship to her growing collection of titles by easily winning the women's halfpipe contest and giving a glimpse of things to come.
Skiing
Jacobellis, Dierdorff win mixed snowboardcross
Lindsey Jacobellis and Mick Dierdorff combined to win the mixed team snowboardcross competition for the Americans at the world championships on Sunday.
Olympic Sports
Snowboarder Arielle Gold's weighted squat jump workout
Olympic bronze medalist Arielle Gold uses this move to build the fast-twitch muscles she needs to explode off the halfpipe.
Snowboarding
Olympian Clark retiring from snowboarding
Kelly Clark, who dominated her sport while ushering in the Olympic era, has decided to retire.
Skiing
Canadian snowboarder Parrot has lymphoma
Olympic medalist snowboarder Max Parrot of Canada has been diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma.
Skiing
Ledecka chooses skiing over snowboard worlds
Skier/snowboarder Ester Ledecka has decided to compete in the Alpine skiing world championships next month instead of the snowboard worlds.
Olympic Sports
Shaun White apologizes for Halloween costume
Shaun White has apologized to the Special Olympics community for dressing up as Simple Jack, a character from the 2008 movie "Tropic Thunder," for Halloween.
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Soutter's dad criticises pressure on young athletes
The father of Team GB snowboarder Ellie Soutter -- who died on her 18th birthday -- has called for more to be done to raise awareness of mental health in high-level sport.
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Team GB snowboarder Soutter dies aged 18
Team GB snowboarder Ellie Soutter has died aged 18, the British Olympic Association announce on Thursday.
Olympic Sports
7 medal events added to 2022 Winter Games
The International Olympic Committee has added seven events to the 2022 Beijing Winter Games, creating a program of 109 gold medals.
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Brady, Shiffrin, LeBron to vie for ESPY awards
Tom Brady, Jose Altuve, Alex Ovechkin and James Harden will vie for the best male athlete award at the ESPYS, while Mikaela Shiffrin, Sylvia Fowles, Chloe Kim and Julie Ertz are nominated for the women's award.
ATP
Federer, Durant, Chloe Kim among Time 100
Roger Federer, Kevin Durant, J.J. Watt, Chloe Kim, Adam Rippon and cricket batsman Virat Kohli were recognized as part of the Time 100.
Curling
Friday recap: The Miracurl on Ice, history for Ledecka, Kenworthy's latest furry friend
Miracurl on Ice! The U.S. men won gold in curling, snowboarder Kyle Mack grabbed silver and Gus Kenworthy found a new best friend. Here's what you missed from Day 15 of the Pyeongchang Games.
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Morgan bronze gives Great Britain record Winter medals haul
Billy Morgan has won snowboard big air bronze to claim a record fifth British Winter Olympics medal of the Games.
Medal Tracker
Total Medal Leaders
- 39
NOR - 31
GER - 29
CAN
- Gold14NORGER
14 CAN11 - Silver14NORGER
10 CAN8 - Bronze11NORCAN
10 
OAR9
Total Medal Leaders
- 5Bjørgen
- 4
Kalla - 4Nilsson
- Gold3Klæbo
Fourcade3 Bjørgen2 - Silver3KallaBolshunov
3 Nilsson2 - Bronze2BjørgenJohansson
2 Bescond2
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Ski jumper Eva Pinkelnig crashes, has surgery on ruptured spleen
Austrian ski jumper Eva Pinkelnig has undergone emergency surgery for a ruptured spleen following a training crash, the Austrian ski federation said Thursday.
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Khabib Nurmagomedov working to make MMA an Olympic sport
UFC lightweight champion Khabib Nurmagomedov said getting MMA in the Olympics will be "one of my biggest tasks for the next couple of years."
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Rafer Johnson, 1960 Olympic decathlon champion, dies at 86
Rafer Johnson, who won the decathlon at the 1960 Rome Olympics and helped subdue Robert F. Kennedy's assassin in 1968, died Wednesday at age 86.
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Mikaela Shiffrin skips World Cup speed races in Switzerland
Mikaela Shiffrin will skip World Cup races in Switzerland this weekend after missing training time in speed events during the coronavirus pandemic, the United States ski team said Tuesday.
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Parkour group urges IOC to reject its sport for 2024 Paris Olympics
Organizers of the sport of parkour urged the IOC on Tuesday to reject adding the obstacle-course-style street-running event to the 2024 Paris Olympics because of a dispute with the governing body of gymnastics.
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IOC confirms Thomas Bach only candidate for presidency
Thomas Bach will have no opponents for his reelection as president in a vote scheduled in March, the International Olympic Committee says.
