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Russian oligarchs foot most of 2014 Sochi Olympics
The mountains of Sochi are now home to Potanin's slope, Gazprom's gondola lift and Sberbank's ski jump. The nicknames used by locals and an army of ...
Olympic ski jump champ Widhoelzl returns as coach
Former Olympic and world ski jumping champion Andreas Widhoelzl of Austria will return to the World Cup circuit as a coach, five years after ending ...
Putin sure Sochi Games prep will be completed
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he is certain that the Winter Olympics next year in Sochi will be successful despite concerns about construction ...
Russia charges former Olympic committee official
Russian prosecutors filed abuse of office charges against the former deputy head of the Russian Olympic Committee on Wednesday. The move against ...
WADA backs HGH test against 'extremist' NFL union
The World Anti-Doping Agency defended its test for human growth hormone on Wednesday and accused the NFL players union of being "extremist" for ...
Jurij Tepes wins season-ending ski flying event
Jurij Tepes of Slovenia earned his first individual ski jump World Cup victory in the final event of the season Sunday, winning a ski flying ...
Northug clinches overall cross-country WCup title
Petter Northug of Norway clinched the overall cross-country World Cup title Sunday with a convincing victory in the final race of the season.
Slovenia wins team ski flying event on World Cup
Jurij Tepes helped host Slovenia win a team ski flying event Saturday at the final ski jump World Cup meet of the season. Tepes had his team's longest ...
Northug closes in on cross-country World Cup title
Petter Northug closed in on the overall cross-country World Cup title Saturday by finishing fourth in a 15-kilometer mass start race won by fellow ...
Northug, Bjoergen win at cross-country World Cup
Norway dominated at the cross-country skiing World Cup finals on Friday, with Petter Northug winning the men's 2.5-kilometer freestyle prologue and ...
Bjoergen wins prologue in x-country World Cup
Marit Bjoergen of Norway won the 2.5-kilometer freestyle prologue at the cross-country skiing World Cup finals on Friday. The prologue and a sprint ...
APNewsBreak: IOC to retest Turin Olympic samples
With the eight-year deadline approaching, the IOC will retest doping samples from the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin in a bid to catch any drug cheats ...
Hendrickson again edges Takanashi to win WCup meet
American Sarah Hendrickson edged Japan's Sara Takanashi on Sunday to win the season's last women's ski jumping World Cup meet on the large hill at ...
Norway's Johaug wins 30k mass start
Norway's Therese Johaug won a women's 30-kilometer mass start freestyle World Cup race before a delirious home crowd on Sunday. Johaug, 24, finished ...
Legkov wins 50K to take cross-country WCup lead
Alexander Legkov of Russia had enough strength for a strong sprint finish to win the grueling 50-kilometer race at Holmenkollen on Saturday and take ...
Lamy Chappuis edges Frenzel in Nordic combined
Jason Lamy Chappuis of France won the last Nordic combined World Cup of the season when he out-dueled Eric Frenzel of Germany by 0.4 seconds at ...
World champs Stoch, Hendrickson win World Cup
World champion Kamil Stoch of Poland hit the 140-meter mark to rise from third and win the ski jumping World Cup on Friday. Stoch overtook Richard ...
Eric Frenzel clinches Nordic combined title
Eric Frenzel won the Nordic combined World Cup title Friday, winning a race for the sixth time this season. The German outsprinted Akiro Watabe of ...
Kowalczyk clinches 4th cross-country WCup title
Justyna Kowalczyk of Poland clinched her fourth overall cross-country World Cup title on Wednesday by winning a classical sprint, while Petter Northug ...
Schlierenzauer wins overall ski jump World Cup
Austrian ski jumper Gregor Schlierenzauer won his second World Cup overall title with four races to spare after finishing fifth in Kuopio, Finland, ...
Freitag wins ski jump World Cup event in Finland
Richard Freitag of Germany won a large hill event on the ski jump World Cup on Sunday, while Gregor Schlierenzauer of Austria failed to clinch the ...
Northug, Kowalczyk win cross-country races
Petter Northug of Norway dominated a men's 15-kilometer classical race Sunday to gain ground in the overall cross-country World Cup standings, while ...
Randall clinches cross-country WCup sprint title
Kikkan Randall of the United States clinched the cross-country World Cup sprint title on Saturday by beating Norwegian world champion Marit Bjoergen ...