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Olympics

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February 5, 2014

U.S. teen skier Mikaela Shiffrin is breakout star for Olympics

Last year, at 17, she became the youngest female world ski champion since 1985 and the youngest American ever to hold a world title.
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February 5, 2014

Maine’s Wescott has no regrets after backcountry injury costs him Olympics

The gold-medalist didn’t see trouble ahead while zooming down a steep slope for a movie scene he was filming.
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February 5, 2014

Putin, recalling Boston bombers, wants safe Olympics

The Chechen brothers accused of the 2013 Boston attacks hailed from just a few hundred miles away from Sochi.
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February 5, 2014

IOC considers independent body for whistleblowers

The IOC will consider setting up an independent body that allows whistleblowers to report information on doping, match-fixing and sexual abuse without fear of reprisals.
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February 5, 2014

Olympians include Miami skater, Indian luger

In Sochi, athletes are truly coming from all parts of the world — whether their homeland is a winter wonderland or not.

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February 5, 2014

US figure skater Wagner likes Sochi’s rainbow hues

Ashley Wagner has been one of the most outspoken athletes against Russia's so-called gay "propaganda" law, and she couldn't help but mention to reporters Wednesday her amusement at the brightly colored graphics at Olympic venues.
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February 5, 2014

Maria Sharapova relives childhood memories in Sochi

Siberia-born Sharapova spent six years in Sochi before her family moved to the United States, and she had her first tennis lesson there.
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February 5, 2014

Shaun White withdraws from Olympic slopestyle

Concerns about the risk of injury led White to forgo the new snowboarding event.
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February 4, 2014

Hotbed for Maine Olympians loses its financing

The Aroostook County training center that is sending six athletes to the Olympics must raise $550,000 in three months.
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February 4, 2014

Putin arrives in Sochi, gets cuddly with leopards

Accompanying journalists apparently upset the cat, which scratched one of them on the hand and bit another on the knee, Russian news agencies reported.