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Schultz ending Paralympic snowboarding career to focus on building prosthetic gear for top athletes
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (528+ words) Mike Schultz of the US competes in the Para Snowboard Men's Snowboard Cross SB-LL1 Quarterfinal 2 competition at the 2026 Winter Paralympics, in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Sunday March 8, 2026. (Jed Jacobsohn/OIS/IOC via AP) The Minnesota native will go behind the scenes…...
What does it mean to win gold at the Paralympics? Ask snowboard great Hernandez and her daughter
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (316+ words) It was the ending that Hernandez, who won her second Paralympic gold medal on Sunday, had dreamed about at the Milan Cortina Paralympics. "It's incredible and I still can't realize what happened," Hernandez said. "I'm very, very, very proud. My…...
Eileen Gu in tears after being told her grandmother passed following her Olympic triumph
2+ week, 4+ day ago (50+ words) Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share "One Battle After Another" wins best picture at BAFTA Film Awards Copyright 2026 The Associated ... Eileen Gu in tears after…...
Eileen Gu in tears after defending her Olympic halfpipe title, learning of her grandmother’s death
2+ week, 5+ day ago (847+ words) That's why her tears flowed freely. Not long after the victory gave her a record-breaking third Olympic gold medal in freeskiing, Gu learned her grandmother, Guozhen Feng, had died. "She was a steam ship," Gu said. "This woman commanded life,…...
Snowboarder Su Yiming delivers China's 1st gold of Winter Olympics while Japan grabs more medals
3+ week, 2+ day ago (723+ words) Luckily for Su, one by one his rivals either fell or came up short of his winning score. Another Olympic medal for Su in the Italian Alps, another victory in an incredibly successful and still young career for the former…...
Gu soars to defend her Olympic halfpipe title, making it 6 medals in career, in photos
2+ week, 5+ day ago (24+ words) LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) " Eileen Gu defended her Olympic ski halfpipe title to make it six medals in six events over her Winter Games career....
Women's Olympic freeski halfpipe final delayed because of heavy snow in the Italian Alps
2+ week, 6+ day ago (215+ words) The final scheduled for 7:30 p.m. local time has been pushed back to 9:00 p.m. Snowstorms this week have caused delays and events to be reshuffled twice already in Livigno, where the Olympic freeski and snowboarding events are being held. The women's halfpipe final…...
An Olympic pin more precious than gold celebrates the late halfpipe pioneer, Sarah Burke
2+ week, 6+ day ago (559+ words) Canada's late, great freeskier Sarah Burke was a pioneer in the women's halfpipe. She encouraged girls and young women to jump into what was, decades ago, almost exclusively a men's sport. Later, her lobbying was key to getting the event…...
Four Americans, including one Trump called a 'loser,' reach the Olympic freeski halfpipe final
3+ week, 7+ hour ago (196+ words) Hess was thrust into the spotlight at the Milan Cortina Games when U.S. President Donald Trump called him a "loser" after the athlete had said that "just because I'm wearing the flag doesn't mean I represent everything that's going on in…...
At halfpipe, neither US-born Olympic medal favorite competes for U.S. Eileen Gu takes the heat
3+ week, 5+ hour ago (784+ words) Zoe Atkin competes for Britain and hardly anyone raises a fuss about it. Eileen Gu competes for China and never hears the end of it. Stories of athletes who lived in one country then decided to compete for another are…...