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Local Olympians

Meyers Taylor wins Olympic monobob title

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Elana Meyers Taylor has won World Cups, won world championships, already was the oldest woman to win an Olympic bobsled medal, recruited dozens of people to the sport and twice pulled off comebacks after becoming a mother. There was only one thing ...

Saranac Laker finishes 4th in 2-man Olympic bobsled

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Germany left no doubt, again: It dominates the men’s bobsled world. Johannes Lochner left no doubt, either: In his farewell season, he’s going out as the most unbeatable bobsledder on the planet. Making it look as easy as one, two, three — or eins, ...

Brit Matt Weston gets 1st Olympic skeleton gold medal

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Matt Weston doesn’t always win. It only seems that way. And at the Milan Cortina Olympics, the 28-year-old slider from Britain left no doubt — he’s the best skeleton racer in the world. Capping a four-year run that featured one remarkable finish after ...

US finishes 5th in Olympic luge team relay

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Germany, Austria, Italy. They were the three best luge nations at the Milan Cortina Olympics, and very fittingly, they were the three best teams in the team relay on Thursday night, Feb. 12. Germany is now 4-for-4 in the team event in the Olympic program, ...

Luge bronze for Farquharson

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Ashley Farquharson crossed the finish line, looked at the giant scoreboard at the end of the track and then immediately began to cry. A happy cry, at that. A very happy cry. USA Luge has its seventh Olympic medal — one that came from a slider who never ...

Italy wins gold in first-ever Olympic women’s doubles luge

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Andrea Voetter and Marion Oberhofer hadn’t won a race this season on the World Cup circuit. They weren’t even contenders in many of them. Ah, the comforts of home. A little Italian ice changed everything — and the first women’s doubles luge champions ...