As one of the most well-known Paralympians from Team USA, Oksana Masters is well on her way to etching her name in history: Her gold medal performance in the women’s individual sitting 12.5K biathlon in Beijing on March 11 put her one medal away from tying the record for the most hardware ever for an […]
The fourth day of Paralympic competition ended on a high note for six Ukrainian athletes. On March 8, the athletes completed two podium sweeps in the day’s biathlon events, marking the third time in the Beijing Games that Ukrainian athletes took the top three spots in an event. The strong finishes come as tragedy and […]
Team USA finished strong on the podium for the women’s 10K sitting biathlon event on March 8, sending two athletes to the top positions: Kendall Gretsch and Oksana Masters took gold and silver, respectively, in the event, just over six months after they both earned gold medals at the Summer Games in Tokyo. Gretsch—who earned […]
On March 7, Team USA’s Brenna Huckaby earned bronze in the women’s Paralympics snowboard cross final, clinching a medal at a Games in which, as of just over a month ago, she wasn’t even eligible to compete. The road to the podium at the 2022 Beijing Games was not a smooth one for Huckaby. In […]
In order to prepare for the longer distances and sustained efforts, Aravich nearly doubled her training hours from track-and-field to build a base for the winter sports in Beijing. In doing so, she realized she needed to take things like sleep and recovery more seriously so she could perform her best. “I want to be […]
In our Sleeping With… series, we ask people from different career paths, backgrounds, and stages of life how they make sleep magic happen. In wheelchair curling, precision is critical. Unlike Olympic curling, where athletes sweep the ice to direct their throws, wheelchair curling athletes have no such advantage—meaning their aim has to be on target […]
The 2022 Winter Games in Beijing marked the first Olympic appearance for figure skater Timothy LeDuc, but when they hit the ice for the pairs skating program on February 18, they ushered in a first for the entire Olympics: LeDuc became the first openly nonbinary athlete to compete at a Winter Games, according to NBC […]
How has your relationship with teammate Brittany Bowe been a source of emotional strength and support for you?I’ve known Brittany since I was 10 years old and she’s a few years older than me. Back when we were growing up on the same team in Florida, it was more like I was the little kid […]
Hilary Knight entered the 2022 Beijing Games already etching her name in the history books. Beijing marked her fourth Olympics Games, tying her for the most Olympic selections among U.S. women. And she ended it with another one: On February 16, Knight played her 22nd Olympic game, which broke the record for the most ever […]
Kamila Valieva, a 15-year-old Russian figure skater, will be allowed to continue to compete at the Olympics despite testing positive for performance enhancing drugs in December, the Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled on Monday. After the controversial decision came out, U.S. track and field star Sha’Carri Richardson questioned the ruling, wondering how Valieva’s case […]
It’s been a sharp shot to the top for speed skater Erin Jackson: Just six years after she hit the ice for the first time, she became an Olympic champion in the sport. On February 13, Jackson earned a first-place finish in the 500-meter speed skating event at the 2022 Winter Olympics with a time […]
In the first-ever Olympic monobob competition, Team USA athletes were quick to put their mark on the new monobob event: On February 14, Kaillie Humphries won gold in the inaugural race, followed closely by her new teammate Elana Meyers Taylor, who clinched silver. Humphries finished with a time of 4:19.27 to secure her first-place finish, […]
In 2014, Kelly Curtis was watching skeleton at the Sochi Olympics on TV, just a few months after seeing the sport in person for the first time. Captivated by the emotion shown by the athletes, she knew it was something she wanted to pursue. Eight years later, she made her Olympic debut in the sport, […]
On Wednesday morning Team USA alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin missed a gate seconds into the women’s slalom race, disqualifying her from her second 2022 Winter Olympics event in a row. Shiffrin, who came to Beijing under the pressure of being a two-time Olympic gold medalist and favorite in her events, also crashed out early in […]
Snowboarder Chloe Kim followed up her storybook Olympic debut from 2018 with another epic run: On February 10, Kim won half-pipe gold at the Beijing Games, making her the first female snowboarder in history to earn back-to-back titles on the Olympic stage, according to the International Olympic Committee (IOC). While the Olympic half-pipe competition is […]