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MOSCOW (AP) — Sochi’s mascots for the 2014 Winter Olympics are a rad snowboarding snow leopard, a squeaky-voiced figure skating bunny and an earnest, slightly dorky polar bear.

Sochi’s mascots for the 2014 Winter Olympics are a rad snowboarding snow leopard, a squeaky-voiced figure skating bunny and an earnest, slightly …

Women’s ski jumping is edging closer to the Olympics. The International Olympic Committee refused to admit the women to the 2010 Vancouver Games but IOC member Gunilla Lindberg praised the quality of jumping at the Nordic world skiing championships. Daniela Iraschko of Austria won gold on Friday. “I am impressed with what I have seen,” [...]

New world champion Daniela Iraschko of Austria is convinced women’s ski jumping merits inclusion at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia. Iraschko twice landed jumps of 97 meters to beat Elena Runggaldier and Coline Mattel in windy and foggy conditions at the Holmenkollen venue on Friday. The International Olympic Committee rejected an application to include [...]

Special Olympics athlete Candy Agpawa and Diamond Pete share a laugh during Celebrity Winterfest 2010 at Diamond Peak.

A spate of terrorist attacks at ski areas in Russia are keying up security concerns ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics to be held in Sochi, Russia, near the country’s contentious borders and fledgling ski industry. The Associated Press and news outlets in Russia are reporting a police officer dead and six wounded after a [...]

The stakes are higher now for Lindsey Van. This time, it could be the 2014 Sochi Olympics. “I think I can handle it,” she told The Associated Press. Two years ago, Van became ski jumping’s first female world champion. On Friday, she will attempt to keep her title in Oslo and possibly qualify for the [...]

The stakes are higher now for Lindsey Van. This time, it could be the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

David Brown stood poised behind the blue line in the third-grade classroom at Chasco Elementary School and, when the moment felt right, he jumped.