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By Dana O’Neil, CNN Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy (CNN) — Sitting to the side of the finish line area at Olympia delle Tofane, Jacqueline Wiles watched Mikaela Shiffrin step into the starting gate for the final slalom run of the women’s combined and thought to herself what everyone else at the mountain was thinking. “We were

By Ben Church, CNN Milan, Italy (CNN) — As tears streamed down her face, Dutch speed skater Jutta Leerdam saw all her sporting dreams come true. The speed skating superstar had not only won the women’s 1000m gold medal, but also set an Olympic record in the process. It was a defining moment in the

By Aleks Klosok, Amanda Davies, CNN Milan (CNN) — Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych told CNN on Tuesday that he will defy the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and wear his helmet featuring images of athletes killed during the war in Ukraine during competition. The IOC earlier expressed understanding for Heraskevych’s situation but said that the

By Dana ONeil, CNN (CNN) — A little more than a week before the 2026 Winter Olympics were set to begin, Annika and Niklas Malacinski dialed into a Zoom call from their World Cup event in Austria. The sibling tandem from Steamboat Springs, Colorado, are among the best in the US in Nordic combined, which

CNN By Kyle Feldscher, CNN (CNN) — Lindsey Vonn said she has no regrets over her decision to compete in the Winter Olympics on a “completely ruptured” ACL following her devastating crash that put an end to her Olympic comeback. “Yesterday my Olympic dream did not finish the way I dreamt it would. It wasn’t

By Kyle Feldscher, CNN (CNN) — Lindsey Vonn said she has no regrets over her decision to compete in the Winter Olympics on a “completely ruptured” ACL following her devastating crash that put an end to her Olympic comeback. “Yesterday my Olympic dream did not finish the way I dreamt it would. It wasn’t a

By Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — Austrian snowboarder Benjamin Karl knew exactly what he would do if he won a gold medal at this year’s Winter Olympics; what he hadn’t planned for was the reaction from the rest of the world. After retaining his parallel giant slalom crown in Livigno on Sunday, the 40-year-old celebrated

By Kyle Feldscher, CNN Santa Clara, California (CNN) — Kenneth Walker Jr. never saw his son play in the NFL before Sunday night. He’d sat with him in the hospital when his boy was treated for blood clots in his lungs and he’d worked with his son to prove the doctors wrong – to prove

CNN By Kyle Feldscher, CNN Santa Clara, California (CNN) — Kenneth Walker Jr. never saw his son play in the NFL before Sunday night. He’d sat with him in the hospital when his boy was treated for blood clots in his lungs and he’d worked with his son to prove the doctors wrong – to

By Kyle Feldscher, Alli Rosenbloom, Maureen Chowdhury, CNN Santa Clara, California (CNN) — The 1994 version of Billie Joe Armstrong would never. On Sunday, Green Day opened up Super Bowl LX at Levi Stadium with a performance of several songs — but missing were the most political lyrics from some of the tracks. The band

By Dana O’Neil, CNN Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy (CNN) — At 12:09 p.m. on a spectacularly beautiful day amid the breathtaking Dolomites, a yellow helicopter cut through the sky, its yellow-painted body in bold contrast with the perfectly blue sky. The chopper flew upwards, up beyond the treeline, stopping to idle between the small ragged peak

By Associated Press Atlanta (AP) — Atlanta Falcons rookie star James Pearce Jr. was arrested near Miami on Saturday night after fleeing officers and then crashing his car following what police said was a domestic dispute with WNBA player Rickea Jackson. Pearce, the first-round pick who led the Falcons in sacks and was third in

By Dana O’Neil, Ben Church, CNN Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy (CNN) — Lindsey Vonn is in “stable condition” after undergoing two operations to treat a serious fracture in her left leg following her crash in the downhill final on Sunday, which brought her Olympic dream to an end. According to source who spoke to Reuters, the

By Hannah Keyser, CNN San Francisco (CNN) — When Austin Sheepo first told his girlfriend that he plays on his high school flag football team, she was a little confused. “Isn’t that a girls’ sport?” she asked. They attend different high schools, and at her school, “they have a real football team and a girls’

By Hannah Keyser, CNN San Francisco (CNN) — They call it “American football” because, well, “football is football,” says Ian Potter. And by “football” he means “soccer,” a fact that is underscored by the raucous cheering that periodically punctuates the Mad Dog in the Fog, a Nottingham Forest bar located in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury neighborhood.

By Dana O’Neil, CNN Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy (CNN) — The message Kendall Coyne Schofield posted on her social media was not terribly difficult to decipher. A framed blackboard propped in front of Schofield’s two dogs, Penny and Blue, spelled out the message: “Baby Schofield Coming Summer 2023.” The dogs wore matching big sister bandanas in