Who says serious athletes are always serious? Akwasi Frimpong, who’s competed for Ghana, is a world-class wisecracker as he reflects on being a Black African athlete in the white world of winter sports.
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Reporter’s notebook: A peek inside the Olympic Village
NPR reporters visited the Milan Olympic Village in the days before the opening ceremony to investigate the dining hall dessert situation and other pressing questions.
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U.S. sledder Katie Uhlaender appeal denied, won’t race at Milan Cortina Olympics
International officials say a point-rigging scheme denied American Katie Uhlaender a shot to compete in the Milan Cortina Olympics. But a sports tribunal based in Switzerland says it can’t intervene.
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How American Katie Uhlaender was denied Olympic bid by Canadian coach’s point scheme
Sports officials say a Canadian coach manipulated the point system used by athletes to qualify for the Olympics. His move cost American sled racer Katie Uhlaender her trip to the Milan Cortina Games.
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Centuries-old remains found in a well may be man from Norse saga
An old Norse story tells of a king’s man being tossed down a well in 1197. An archeologist teamed up with an evolutionary genomicist to study DNA of a skeleton found in that well.
