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Jay Vine wins Tour Down Under after crash caused by kangaroo
Australia's Jay Vine was knocked down by a kangaroo on the final stage Sunday but recovered to win the Tour Down Under cycle race.
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U.S. skaters ineligible for Olympics win at Four Continents
U.S. pairs champions Alisa Efimova and Misha Mitrofanov rallied to win the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships in Beijing. Efimova's citizenship status will keep the duo out of next month's Olympics.
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Shiffrin back on GS podium after 2 years; Hector, Moltzan go 1-2
Mikaela Shiffrin finished third at Saturday's World Cup giant slalom event in Czechia, her first podium finish in the discipline in two years.
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Giovanni Franzoni adds Kitzbühel downhill win to breakout season
Italian skier Giovanni Franzoni put another exclamation point on his breakout World Cup season by winning on the classic Streif course, two weeks before the downhill race at his home Olympics.
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Ota Zaremba, 1980 Olympic weightlifting champion, dies at 68
Ota Zaremba, who won a weightlifting gold medal at the 1980 Moscow Olympics before admitting to using performance-enhancing drugs under a secret program run by the totalitarian regime in the former Czechoslovakia, has died. He was 68.
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Why feds call Olympic snowboarder a 'modern-day Pablo Escobar'
Former Olympian Ryan Wedding was arrested Friday. Here's what we know about his case.
