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With canceled events and limited training, athletes continue to train for 2022 Winter Olympics Future of the Summer Olympics still in question and last updated 2021-01-29 18:56:07-05 The future of the Summer Olympics is still up in the air, and could indicate the future of the 2022 Games in Beijing. Even with all the restrictions and obstacles, athletes are pushing forward and finding ways to train. “I started skiing on the World Cup Tour when I was 15 years old, and made the Olympics when I was 17. Now, I’m here training for the 2022 games in Beijing,” Tess Johnson, Olympic mo...

2020-21 Land Rover U.S. Alpine Ski TeamPhoto: Max Hall/U.S. Ski Team Squaw Valley’s Travis Ganong led the U.S. Alpine Ski Team in Kitzbuhel, Austria, posting a pair of top-12 finished in downhill and a 27th in super-G at a trio of World Cup events. Ganong, 32, led the U.S. during last Friday’s downhill race, finishing with a time of 1 minute, 55.52 seconds to claim 11th. Switzerland’s Beat Feuz, 33, took the win with a time of 1:53.77. The race at the notorious Hahnenkamm typically brings crowds of 80,000 people, but due to COVID-19 this year’s event was held without grandstands and f...

Shiffrin fourth in final GS before Worlds January 26, 2021, 10:56 am Mikaela Shiffrin of Edwards finished just off the podium in fourth Tuesday in Kronplatz, Italy, in the final giant slalom before the World Championships in Cortina next month. Here’s the press release from the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team: In the final FIS Ski World Cup giant slalom before the 2021 FIS World Championships, two-time Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin snagged fourth place in Kronplatz, Italy. Mikaela Shiffrin Tessa Worley, whose longtime boyfriend Julien Lizeroux will retire this evening at...

Obituary: Walter R. Belden WINTHROP - Walter R. Belden, a devoted husband, loving father, and a friend to many, died on Jan. 7, 2021 surrounded ... Share Walter R. Belden WINTHROP – Walter R. Belden, a devoted husband, loving father, and a friend to many, died on Jan. 7, 2021 surrounded by his family at his home in Winthrop where he lived for over 50 years. He was born to Stephen and Phyllis Belden in Winthrop on June 13, 1941. Walter was the youngest of seven children – born eight years after his youngest sibling Ethel with whom he was very close to. In high school, he was active in t...

Shiffrin third in Semmering Mikaela Shiffrin of Edwards, right, celebrates with Michelle Gisin (Getty Images). Mikaela Shiffrin of Edwards was third in a night slalom in Semmering, Austria on Tuesday. Here’s the press release from the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team: It was a banner day to finish out 2020 with Mikaela Shiffrin taking third place in the FIS Alpine World Cup slalom in Semmering, Austria, and Nina O’Brien finishing in ninth—her first top-10 result in her career.  Under the lights, Michelle Gisin of Switzerland had a heroic second run to win her first-ever World...