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2018 PYEONGCHANG OLYMPICS

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OLYMPICS
Feb 17, 2018
Switzerland's Pius Suter notches hat trick in rout of South Korea
Pius Suter scored a hat trick as Switzerland overpowered the South Korea men's ice hockey team 8-0 on Saturday to claim its first win of the Olympic tournament.
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OLYMPICS
Feb 17, 2018
China hands Japan women's curling squad first loss
The Japan women's curling team suffered its first loss of the Pyeongchang Olympics on Saturday, the foursome letting an early lead slip from its fingers to lose 7-6 against China.
OLYMPICS
Feb 17, 2018
Czech Republic beats Canada in shootout
The Czech Republic beat Canada 3-2 in a shootout on Saturday in a back-and-forth preliminary game in the men's Olympic ice hockey tournament.
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OLYMPICS
Feb 17, 2018
Yuzuru Hanyu and Shoma Uno's Olympic performances light up Tokyo
Pyeongchang is 1,000 km away from Tokyo.
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OLYMPICS
Feb 17, 2018
Majestic Yuzuru Hanyu defends Olympic figure skating title
Yuzuru Hanyu etched his name into the pantheon of skating legends with a second straight Olympic gold medal in the free skate at the Pyeongchang Games on Saturday.
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OLYMPICS
Feb 17, 2018
Switzerland bests Japan's men's curling team
Japan fell to its second defeat in a row, a 6-5 loss to Switzerland, in men's curling at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics on Friday.
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OLYMPICS
Feb 16, 2018
Esmee Visser wins women's 5,000 as Dutch claim more speedskating gold
Esmee Visser continued the Netherlands' unrivaled run in Pyeongchang Olympic speed skating Friday, winning the 5,000-meter gold medal, her country's sixth at Gangneung Oval at these games.
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OLYMPICS
Feb 16, 2018
Yuzuru Hanyu enters Pyeongchang free skate mindful of mistakes made in Sochi
Mindful of his error-riddled free skate at the Sochi Olympics, defending Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu refuses to get carried away after winning the men's figure skating short program at the Pyeongchang Games on Friday.
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OLYMPICS
Feb 16, 2018
Who to watch on Saturday, Day 9 of the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics
9:05 a.m. Curling, women’s preliminary round: Entering the fourth day of the preliminary round, Japan will face China and the Olympic Athletes from Russia. Japan, runner-up at the 2016 world championships, is currently ranked sixth in the world while China is No. 10. It is important for Japan to win as many games as possible against the lower-ranked nations before facing top-ranked Canada and No. 5 Sweden on Monday if it is to advance to the final round.
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OLYMPICS
Feb 16, 2018
Yuzuru Hanyu takes lead after short program at Pyeongchang Games
In incredibly dramatic fashion, Yuzuru Hanyu rose to the occasion in the short program at Gangneung Ice Arena on Friday afternoon.
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OLYMPICS
Feb 16, 2018
Yuzuru Hanyu charms audiences at Tokyo public viewings
Over 200 figure skating fans watched Yuzuru Hanyu's bid for Olympic immortality on Friday at NHK Fureai Hall in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward, which was hosting one of several public viewing events taking place around the capital.
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OLYMPICS
Feb 16, 2018
Austria's Matthias Mayer breaks Norway's super-G stranglehold
Austria's Matthias Mayer made up for the disappointment of his injury-hampered downhill title defense at the Pyeongchang Olympics by skiing an error-free run to win the men's super-G on Friday, ending 16 years of Norwegian dominance of the event.
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OLYMPICS
Feb 16, 2018
Bittersweet Valentine's gift fires Noriaki Kasai up for large hill
Noriaki Kasai had a bittersweet Valentine's Day.
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OLYMPICS
Feb 15, 2018
Ted-Jan Bloemen eclipses Jorrit Bergsma's minutes-old Olympic record, captures 10,000-meter gold
Canada's Ted-Jan Bloemen captured the gold medal in the men's 10,000 meters speedskating at Gangneung Oval on Thursday night in Olympic record time.
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OLYMPICS
Feb 15, 2018
North Korean cheerleaders attend South Korea-Czech Republic men's match
North Korea's cheerleading squad made an unexpected appearance at the South Korean men's hockey game against the Czech Republic on Thursday, marking its first attendance at an Olympic event not featuring a North Korean athlete.
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OLYMPICS
Feb 15, 2018
Swiss couple cycle 17,000 kilometers to watch son compete in freestyle skiing
A year and 17,000 kilometers later, a Swiss couple arrived in Pyeongchang this week to watch their son compete in the Winter Olympics.
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OLYMPICS
Feb 15, 2018
Unheralded Swedish sharpshooter Hanna Oeberg takes shock biathlon gold
Sweden's Hanna Oeberg made all 20 shots to pull off a shock victory in the women's Olympic 15-km individual biathlon on Thursday, holding off Germany's double Olympic champion Laura Dahlmeier, who had to settle for third after a costly early miss.
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OLYMPICS
Feb 15, 2018
Who to watch on Friday, Day 8 of the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics
10 a.m. Figure skating, men’s short program: Defending Olympic champion and world champion Yuzuru Hanyu takes part in his first competition since he injured his right ankle during an NHK Trophy practice last November. The 23-year-old star holds world records for most points in a short program (112.72), free skate (223.20) and total (330.43). During Tuesday’s practice session, Hanyu showed the quadruple salchow and quadruple toe loop a few times. Reigning national champion Shoma Uno, who became the first skater in the world to complete a quadruple flip in 2016, scored 103.25 in the short program at the team event last week and aims for his first Olympic medal. Keiji Tanaka uses two types of quadruple jumps (salchow and toe loop), though he failed to land one in the free skate during the team event.
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OLYMPICS
Feb 15, 2018
Discovery bets on Olympic Games to break European language barrier
Inside a hulking five-story building at the Winter Olympics, TV production crews are working with video in 21 languages, all part of a plan by their U.S. employer, Discovery Communications, to become the top sports media brand in Europe.
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OLYMPICS
Feb 15, 2018
Hirano, White consider runs at skateboarding gold in 2020
A day after claiming his second straight Winter Olympic halfpipe silver medal, teenage snowboarder Ayumu Hirano said Thursday he is considering a bid to compete in skateboarding at the 2020 Tokyo Games.

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