Jacqueline Loelling – Credit: USA Today By John Eric Goff, Professor of Physics at Lynchburg University Speed alone may be the factor that draws many sports fans to the bobsled, luge and skeleton events at this year’s Winter 2022 Olympics. ...
Hubbell and Donohue nearly collide with Sinitsina and Katsalapov – Credit: NBC Olympics Six-minute warmups tend to be a figure skater’s best friend, but on rare occasions they can turn into their worst enemy. Two of the world’s top ice ...
Eileen Gu and Kelly Sildaru – Credit: Matthew Stockman/Getty Images When Chinese-American skier Eileen Gu takes to the slopes at the 2022 Winter Olympics, she’ll have the eyes of the host nation upon her, the pressures of challenging for gold ...
Cross-country skier Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo races in front of competition through snow It’s Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo’s world and we’re all just living in it. Klaebo will compete in the men’s 30km skiathlon in his second Olympic appearance. As the youngest male ...
Jamie Anderson competes at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Credit: Marco Bertorello/AFP via Getty Images Two-time defending gold medalist Jamie Anderson of the U.S. made it into her third career Olympic slopestyle final Saturday with room for improvement as the ...
Nordic Combined Skier Eric Frenzel in action with poles in hand during the team event Germany’s Nordic combined skiers Eric Frenzel and Terence Weber, who arrived in Beijing on Thursday, have tested positive for COVID-19 following a series of re-tests, ...
Speed skating – Credit: (Imagn) There are two forms of speed skating that will take place at the 2022 Winter Olympics: long track and short track. One is a rhythmic race against the clock while the other is a fast-paced ...
U.S. Alpine skiers discuss conditions on the course at the Yanqing National Alpine Skiing Center after the men's downhill third training session was cancelled due to bad weather. – Credit: Getty Images The last of three Alpine skiing men’s downhill ...
Ashley Cain-Gribble, Timothy LeDuc at Opening Ceremony – Credit: IG: @icegirlash The U.S. figure skating team kicked off its 2022 Winter Olympics experience with a banner Friday morning in the team event, leading ROC and China through three of the ...
Biathlete Johannes Thingnes Boe takes a shot on target As the third most successful male biathlete of all time with three straight overall men’s World Cup titles and Olympic gold, Norway’s Johannes Thingnes Boe is a biathlon unit. Among one of ...