By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer MILAN (AP) — Sidney Crosby is not playing for Canada against Finland in the semifinals at the Olympics on Friday because of injury. Crosby appeared to injure his right knee in the second period of the quarterfinals against Czechia on Wednesday night. ...

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — Spectators trekking through heavy snow to the Cortina Olympic curling stadium were delighted to be greeted by a traditional Scottish bagpipe performance from a group of high sock-wearing, kilt-sporting, snare ...

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer MILAN (AP) — Alysa Liu probably cared the least of all the women in figure skating at the Milan Cortina Olympics about winning the gold medal. Maybe that is why she won it. The 20-year-old with the striped hair, prominent frenulum piercing and carefree ...

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer MILAN (AP) — Hilary Knight is in her last Olympics, wrapping up a stretch as the face of women's hockey in the United States. Laila Edwards is in her first and could very well be Knight's successor. The present and future of the sport combined on a ...

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer MILAN (AP) — Quinn and Jack Hughes watched in person as the U.S. women's hockey team rallied to beat Canada in the gold medal game at the Olympics on Thursday night in an overtime thriller that showcased the face of the sport in Hilary Knight and her ...

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer MILAN (AP) — Alysa Liu had just delivered a near-flawless Olympic free skate on Thursday night, one that left a packed crowd inside the Milano Ice Skating Arena standing and roaring, when a television camera zoomed in on the American star as she was heading ...

By JOHN WAWROW AP Hockey Writer MILAN (AP) — A last Olympic goal for Hilary Knight, a gold medal-winning overtime one for Megan Keller, and the Americans cemented their reputation as one of the most dominant women's hockey teams to take the ice. After romping through their first six ...

MILAN (AP) — On a night of American comebacks at the Milan Cortina Games, Alysa Liu delivered the U.S. its first women's figure skating Olympic gold medal in 24 years. The 20-year-old Liu performed a near-flawless free skate Thursday to upstage Japanese rivals Kaori Sakamoto and Ami Nakai. ...

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer MILAN (AP) — Amber Glenn delivered a redemptive free skate at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Thursday night, turning what had been tears of disappointment and sorrow just a couple of days earlier into ones of pride and joy. It nearly turned a hopeless ...

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy (AP) — By the end of the Milan Cortina Olympics, there will have been a total of 147 curling matches crammed into 18 days. That's why Brad Jacobs is looking forward to some rest. But first, he has a few things left on his to-do ...

By HOWARD FENDRICH AP National Writer MILAN (AP) — Jordan Stolz was rather surprised that his Olympic gold medal streak ended Thursday. So was his coach. And so, too, was Ning Zhongyan of China, the man who beat Stolz in speedskating's 1,500 meters at the Milan Cortina Games. "I didn't ...

By JOHN WAWROW AP Hockey Writer MILAN (AP) — Alina Muller did it again. Twelve years after scoring the clinching goal to deliver Switzerland its first Olympic medal in women's hockey — a bronze at the 2014 Sochi Games — Muller scored 9:09 into overtime in a 2-1 win over Sweden on ...

BORMIO, Italy (AP) — Nikita Filippov, the ski mountaineer racer listed as an individual neutral athlete, was feeling the support. From family and his friends, who showed up in the stands for Thursday's race with a big picture of his face on a poster. He was feeling the pressure, too. From ...

By PAT GRAHAM AP Sports Writer BORMIO, Italy (AP) — They skied uphill through a diamond-shaped pattern and climbed a flight of on-slope stairs in their ski boots. Far from done, they endured more lung-searing climbing, with skis back on, and then a downhill dash to the finish line. All ...

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer MILAN (AP) — Sidney Crosby scored one of the biggest goals in Canada's hockey history to win gold on home ice at the Vancouver Olympics in 2010. Since Sochi in 2014, he has been captain every time he represented his country. For a long time the best ...

By EDDIE PELLS AP National Writer LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — One of the more frightening falls over 14 days of snowboarding at the Milan Cortina Olympics involved one of the sport's newest champions. Gaon Choi slammed hard on the deck of the halfpipe in her first run — her knees buckling ...

By MARTHA BELLISLE Associated Press ANTERSELVA, Italy (AP) — Julia Simon didn't need to shoot fast when she entered the range on the last leg of the women's 4x6-kilometer biathlon relay race at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Wednesday. But she knocked down all five targets in rapid ...

By STEPHEN WHYNO AP Hockey Writer MILAN (AP) — Canada is not closing the door on the possibility of Sidney Crosby playing Friday against Finland in the semifinals at the Olympics after leaving the team's quarterfinal game with an apparent right-leg injury that is still being ...

By JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press LIVIGNO, Italy (AP) — Swiss freeskier Fanny Smith has her medal. Her faith in skicross officials, however, remains lost as she prepares for another shot at an Olympic podium in the Italian Alps. Rewind to the 2022 Beijing Winter Games, when Smith ...

By JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press CORTINA D'AMPEZZO (AP) — Niklas Edin saw it coming. Last May, the soon-to-be curler for Team Sweden at the Milan Cortina Olympic Games was incensed. He kept witnessing the same rule infraction — called double-touching — in international curling ...