HALMSTAD, Sweden (AP) The combined Korean women’s table tennis team won a bronze medal Friday at the world championships.
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HALMSTAD, Sweden (AP) The combined Korean women’s table tennis team won a bronze medal Friday at the world championships.
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MOSCOW (AP) A Russian biathlete who competed at the Sochi Olympics has been banned for two years for doping.
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HALMSTAD, Sweden (AP) Ping pong diplomacy is working for North and South Korea, who have combined their women’s teams at the table tennis world championships.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) A joint American-Danish team in the Volvo Ocean Race has replaced its broken mast and is aiming to be shipshape in time for the start of Leg 8 from Itajai, Brazil, to Newport, Rhode Island, on Sunday.
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Olympic bronze medalist ice dancers Maia and Alex Shibutani will skip the next figure skating season but aren’t retiring.
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VIENNA (AP) Austrian prosecutors say they are investigating possible doping, fraud and corruption involving Russian athletes and officials in the sport of biathlon.
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After an exhausting, often exhilarating and sometimes excruciating figure skating season, it would seem logical for the Olympians to seek a long rest.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) Volvo Ocean Race sailor John Fisher of Britain wasn’t wearing his safety tether when he was knocked off his sloop into the frigid, remote Southern Ocean in gale-force conditions just before dawn Monday, according to a timeline released by Team Sun Hung Kai/Scallywag.
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TYUMEN, Russia (AP) Kaisa Makarainen of Finland won the women’s biathlon World Cup for the third time in her career on Sunday after a dramatic finish to the final race of the season.
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LONDON (AP) Favorite Cambridge stormed to victory in the Boat Race to hand coach Steve Trapmore a farewell triumph on the River Thames on Saturday.
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ASSAGO, Italy (AP) Nathan Chen completed six quadruples and bettered his Olympic free skate score to win the world figure skating title on Saturday.
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BIRMINGHAM, England (AP) Title holder Lee Chong Wei survived a scare in the last 16 of the All-England Open Thursday to set up an eagerly-awaited quarterfinal showdown with double Olympic champion Lin Dan in badminton’s oldest tournament.
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MOSCOW (AP) Olympic figure skating silver medalist Evgenia Medvedeva has withdrawn from the world championships later this month, ending the prospect of another showdown for gold with her friend and rival Alina Zagitova.
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TOKYO (AP) Two-time Olympic figure skating gold medalist Yuzuru Hanyu will miss this month’s world championships because of pain in his right ankle.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) Double Olympic bronze medalists Maia and Alex Shibutani have dropped out of the upcoming World Figure Skating Championships.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) Sailing through the darkness in 20 knots of wind shortly after midnight on Jan. 20, just an hour and a half from pulling into Hong Kong in second place at the end of the 5,600 nautical mile fourth leg of the Volvo Ocean Race, Vestas 11th Hour Racing was monitoring nearby vessels on radar and the Automatic Identification System.
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) After 10,000 kilometers (6,000 miles) and almost 21 days at sea, only two minutes separated the first two yachts to finish the sixth leg of the Volvo Ocean Race on Wednesday after a difficult passage from Hong Kong Auckland.
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TOKYO (AP) After winning two Olympic gold medals, Yuzuru Hanyu wants to master a quadruple axel.
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VIENNA (AP) The Austrian snowboard crosser who broke his neck in a frightening crash at the Olympics last week is considering a return to the sport.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) Vestas 11th Hour Racing says it won’t compete in Leg 6 of the Volvo Ocean Race and its 65-foot sloop is behind shipped from Hong Kong to Auckland, New Zealand, to repair damage sustained in a fatal collision with a Chinese fishing boat two weeks ago.
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FELDBERG, Germany (AP) Julian Lueftner of Austria and Michela Moioli of Italy won snowboard cross races on Saturday in the penultimate World Cup before the Winter Olympics.
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SIGULDA, Latvia (AP) World champions Toni Eggert and Sascha Benecken won the last luge doubles race of the season to win the European title and successfully defend their overall World Cup title on Saturday.
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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) Boyang Jin of China jumped his way to gold at the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in the last international competition before the Pyeongchang Olympics.
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KOENIGSSEE, Germany (AP) Francesco Friedrich won a 2-man bobsled World Cup to cut Justin Kripps’ overall lead on Saturday.
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MOSCOW (AP) French ice dancers Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron headed for their fourth consecutive gold after Friday’s short dance at the European Figure Skating Championships.
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MOSCOW (AP) Javier Fernandez took a step toward his sixth consecutive European Figure Skating Championships gold medal on Wednesday, the only skater in the men’s short program to land two quads.
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RUHPOLDING, Germany (AP) Johannes Thingnes Boe ended Martin Fourcade’s biathlon World Cup-winning streak and Kaisa Makarainen claimed her first win of the season in mass start races on Sunday.
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ST. MORITZ, Switzerland (AP) World Cup leader Johannes Lochner won a four-man bobsled event on Sunday and edged closer to the season-long title.
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ST. MORITZ, Switzerland (AP) The United States won a two-woman bobsled World Cup on Saturday but lost a third qualifying entry in the Olympic lineup.
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RUHPOLDING, Germany (AP) Laura Dahlmeier took Germany to victory in the women’s 4×6-kilometer relay at a biathlon World Cup on Saturday.
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