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The Winter Games' opening ceremony took place Friday, with 20,000 fireworks, the parade of athletes — and an impromptu handshake between South Korea's president and Kim Jong Un's sister.
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From Texas Standard . The 2018 Winter Olympics will feature many athletes from the Lone Star State. Most will compete for the U.S., but a few represent...
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The U.S. squad, 242 strong, has more women than ever. It also includes 10 African-Americans, 11 Asian-Americans and the first two openly gay athletes to compete for the U.S. at a Winter Olympics.
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"I think you can either laugh about it, or you can cry about it," American cross-country skier Jessie Diggins says.
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The 2018 Winter Olympics start on Friday. NPR's Michel Martin talks with William Douglas of McClatchy Newspapers about Korea's wide search to recruit athletes for the countries' merged teams.
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Fourteen skaters in individual, pairs and dance categories will travel to South Korea next month to try to bolster America's sterling reputation in one of the Olympics' most popular sports.
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The decision by the International Olympic Committee follows last year's McLaren report, which said more than 1,000 Russian athletes were involved in manipulating doping controls.
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LA last hosted the Summer Games in 1984. The city had originally been bidding for the 2024 games, which will go to Paris instead.
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Although NHL players have expressed a desire to once again play in the Winter Olympics, league officials say they won't be halting the season to make time for the 2018 Games in South Korea.
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The iconic stadium has hosted decades of Brazil's most important sporting events. Now, abandonment and looting have left it an eyesore — and no one is accepting all the blame.