Women's biathlon
Anais Chevalier-Bouchet of France prepares to shoot during the women's 4x6-kilometer relay at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
Epic Olympic battle highlights biathlon at Beijing Games

By Martha Bellisle Feb. 19, 2022 06:07 AM EST

AP Sportlight

By The Associated Press Feb. 18, 2022 10:00 AM EST
Feb. 19 1928 — Canada wins the gold medal in ice hockey at the Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland. Canada, represented by the 1926 Toronto...

Johannes Thingnes Boe of Norway crosses the finish line in the men's 15-kilometer mass start biathlon at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 18, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Boe, Braisaz-Bouchet handle conditions, win Olympic golds

By Martha Bellisle Feb. 18, 2022 03:15 AM EST

Ashley Cain-Gribble and Timothy Leduc, of the United States, compete in the pairs short program during the figure skating competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 18, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
Olympics Live: China pair breaks figure skating world record

Feb. 17, 2022 08:39 PM EST

AP-Sportlight-Week Ahead

By The Associated Press Feb. 17, 2022 11:05 AM EST
Feb. 18 1924 — Theresa Weld Blanchard wins her sixth and final U.S. figure skating championship. Sherwin Badger captures his fifth straight and final...

Miho Takagi of Japan competes during the women's speedskating 1,000-meter finals at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Olympics Live: Kamila Valieva's falls leave her in 4th place

Feb. 16, 2022 10:09 PM EST

United States' Andy Miele (51) leaves the ice after the United States lost to Slovakia in a men's quarterfinal hockey game at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, in Beijing. Slovakia won 3-2 in a shoot-out. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)
Epic tricks lift US freestyle skiers to 1-2 Olympic finish

By Bernie Wilson Feb. 16, 2022 06:21 AM EST

Franziska Preuss of Germany, right, tags Denise Herrmann during the women's 4x6-kilometer relay at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
Sweden takes Olympic gold in 4-woman biathlon relay

By Martha Bellisle Feb. 16, 2022 04:35 AM EST

Mona Brorsson of Sweden, left, Vanessa Hinz of Germany and Dorothea Wierer of Italy ski onto the shooting range during the women's 4x6-kilometer relay at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
Olympics Live: US, Canada both out of men's hockey

Feb. 15, 2022 10:23 PM EST

United States players celebrate after a 4-1 win against Finland in a women's semifinal hockey game at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Monday, Feb. 14, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)
Olympics Live: US wins to set up gold-medal game with Canada

Feb. 13, 2022 09:34 PM EST

Marte Olsbu Roeiseland of Norway skis during the women's 10-kilometer pursuit race at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Roeiseland, Fillon Maillet win Olympic gold in pursuit races

By Martha Bellisle Feb. 13, 2022 05:02 AM EST

Erin Jackson of the United States skates during a speedskating practice session at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Olympics Live: US clinches men's hockey tournament top seed

Feb. 12, 2022 08:28 PM EST

Marte Olsbu Roeiseland of Norway crosses the finish line during the women's 7.5-kilometer sprint competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 11, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)
Norway's Roeiseland shoots her way to Olympic sprint gold

By Martha Bellisle Feb. 11, 2022 05:42 AM EST

Vanessa Voigt of Germany skis during the 4x6-kilometer mixed relay at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Saturday, Feb. 5, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Cold front in mountain Olympic venues tough for athletes

By Martha Bellisle Feb. 10, 2022 01:30 AM EST

Natalie Geisenberger, of Germany, celebrates winning the gold medal in luge women's singles at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022, in the Yanqing district of Beijing. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)
Olympics Live: Germany's Geisenberger is 3-time luge champ

Feb. 07, 2022 08:30 PM EST

FILE - Second placed Sweden's Stina Nilsson celebrates on the podium after the cross-country ski, women's World Cup sprint event, in Planica, Slovenia, Dec. 21, 2019. Nilsson was at the top of her game after winning four medals at the 2018 Winter Olympics and two World Championship titles in 2019. But Nilsson shocked the Nordic community when she announced in 2020 that she was leaving one of the strongest cross country teams in the world to try her hand at biathlon. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic, File)
Swedish XC skier switches to biathlon, makes Olympic team

By Martha Bellisle Feb. 05, 2022 10:33 PM EST

Sweden's Walter Wallberg competes in the men's moguls finals at Genting Snow Park at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Saturday, Feb. 5, 2022, in Zhangjiakou, China. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
Olympic Updates: China's first gold draws cheers downtown

Feb. 04, 2022 08:11 PM EST

FILE - Jake Brown of the United States competes during the men's 20km individual race at the biathlon World Cup in Anterselva, Italy, Thursday, Jan. 20, 2022. Brown says biathlon is the marriage of “two totally unrelated things." One is physical and the other is mostly mental. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)
EXPLAINER: Biathlon combines physical demands, mental calm

By Martha Bellisle Feb. 04, 2022 01:09 AM EST

FILE - The Olympic rings are displayed at the main media center for the Beijing Winter Olympics on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022, in Beijing. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)
Prepare for the Beijing Games with this Olympic quiz

By Noah Trister Jan. 30, 2022 09:53 PM EST

A cross country skier glides along the freshly groomed trails at Cabin Creek Sno Park near Easton, Washington on Dec. 19, 2021. When COVID-19 hit in the winter of 2020, many escaped cabin fever by hitting the ski trails and Nordic skis quickly became the new toilet paper – they were hard to find and sold out in stores. The ski boom has continued as the pandemic makes winter outdoor recreation appealing, but climate change means its future is uncertain. (AP Photo/Martha Bellisle)
Climate change makes the future of Nordic skiing uncertain

By Martha Bellisle Jan. 18, 2022 01:05 PM EST