USA Gold – Credit: Getty Memorable Goodbye(s?) Let’s start, as you might not usually do, with two big-time goodbyes. If Shaun White didn’t invent snowboard hype, he most certainly reinvented it. With apologies to Ross Powers and Karine Ruby, White’s arrival atop the podium in ...
Hannah Neise – Credit: Getty Images FULL RESULTS AND STANDINGS WOMEN’S SKELETON MEDALISTS AT THE 2022 WINTER OLYMPICS: GOLD: Hannah Neise, GER, 4:07.62SILVER: Jaclyn Narracott, AUS, (+0.62)BRONZE: Kimberley Bos, NED, (+0.84) WATCH FULL EVENT REPLAYS: HEATS 1 AND 2 | HEATS 3 AND 4 ...
Jaclyn Narracott – Credit: Getty Images WOMEN’S SKELETON HEATS 1 AND 2:WATCH THE FULL EVENT REPLAY | CHECK THE RESULTS | READ THE RECAP At the midpoint of women’s skeleton, Australia’s Jaclyn “Jackie” Narracott leads Germany’s Hannah Neise and Tina Hermann by only 0.21 and 0.23 ...
Madison Chock and Evan Bates skate during the pairs skating team event free skate – Credit: Getty Images Each day of the 2022 Winter Games, NBC Olympics will run down every sport in action, highlighting the biggest athletes and marquee ...
Katie Uhlaender – Credit: Adam Pretty/Getty Images Trying to be “as light as you can mentally and as heavy as you can physically” sounds like a paradox. But for American skeleton Katie Uhlaender, it’s a maxim she aspires to maintain. ...
Jaclyn Narracott loads her sled – Credit: Getty Images Overcoming an intimidating field that included three Olympic medalists and four world championship medalists, Australia’s Jaclyn Narracott is the unexpected leader midway through the women’s skeleton competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics. The ...
Katie Uhlaender – Credit: Getty Images In many ways, skeleton is a sport of subtlety: Lifting one’s shoulder half an inch or slightly shifting weight from one side of the hip to the other can determine the 0.31-second difference that ...
Katie Uhlaender – Credit: USA Today “Katie Uhlaendar” may not be a household name, but she’s starred in every Winter Olympics for the past 16 years. Now, the 37-year-old skeleton veteran has been given the green light to slide through ...
Speed skater Claudia Pechstein of Team Germany reacts after the Women's 3000m – Credit: (Photo by Wang Xianmin/CHINASPORTS/VCG via Getty Images) Claudia Pechstein makes history German speed skater Claudia Pechstein made Olympic history twice when she competed in the women’s 3000m, but ...
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. ...