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Local Olympians

COVID knocks Meyers Taylor out of Olympic flagbearer duty

BEIJING (AP) — Bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor was chosen Wednesday to be a flagbearer for the U.S. Olympic team but will not be able to attend the Winter Games opening ceremony because she’s in isolation after a positive COVID-19 test. Speedskater Brittany Bowe will take her place in ...

Watch Olympic luge on NBC

Here’s the Olympic live streaming schedule. All times are Eastern. Feb, 5: 6:10 a.m. Men’s Singles Luge: Runs 1 and 2 https://stream.nbcolympics.com/mens-singles-luge-run-1-2 Feb. 6: 6:30 a.m. Men’s Singles Luge: Runs 3 and ...

USA Luge names Olympic team nominations

LAKE PLACID — The wait is over for Chris Mazdzer. The 2018 Pyeongchang silver medalist will get his fourth Olympic nomination after the International Luge Federation confirmed Monday, Jan. 10 that USA Luge would receive three starters in the Beijing men’s singles Olympic field. A total of ...

Mazdzer-Terdiman sled crashes, Olympic luge hopes slip away

Olympic veterans Chris Mazdzer and Jayson Terdiman crashed out of a World Cup qualifying race on Friday, ending their hopes of being the doubles sled that represents USA Luge at next month’s Beijing Games. That spot will now go to either Zach Di Gregorio and Sean Hollander, or Dana Kellogg ...

Relay bronze for U.S. lugers, Britcher gets Olympic nod

U.S. luge racers were pumping their fists on the podium Sunday, Jan. 2, in Winterberg, Germany. They had just taken third place in the team relay, behind Latvia and Austria, and defeated the mighty Germans on their home track. One of the four teammates, Summer Britcher of Pennsylvania ...

Billy Demong meets his Olympic hero … and more

Nordic combined Olympic medalist Billy Demong doesn’t get starstruck very often, but he said that changed when fellow medalist Bill Koch called him earlier this year. Demong, 41, said Koch, 66, is his “childhood hero,” and he got a chance to meet him when he was 9 years old — at ...