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Derval O'Rourke recently saw the trailer for the new Rory McIlroy documentary about his Masters victory and there's a line in it about last year being his 17th attempt to win the green jacket.

I don't know what kind of skier I'll be when I line up at the start line. I might not be my best, but I will have the will to not give up, to keep fighting and ... do what I can do. That's what I've been doing my whole life. I'm not going to stop now.

The dream was to change my background, which I can say wasn't that good. I just trusted that I was doing this for my future to be better, and not to give up. I just decided that with the talent I have: You can do better, and your life can be better.

At my college back in the day, just as Title IX was being passed, the male athletes were given steak dinners at the cafe the night before big games, especially football, but basketball, and baseball too, but none for female teams. I was a walk-on to our softball team my freshman year, and also worked in the cafeteria to help pay tuition.

Yeah, training's gone really well. I'm very happy with where I am. As you get into an indoor season and you start racing and running faster and the reps get shorter and the recovery gets longer, I think you just naturally come into even more shape, which is obviously really exciting.

I spend a lot of time in my head... I journal a lot. I break down all of my thought processes. I apply a very analytical lens to my own thinking, and I modify it. You can control what you think. You can control how you think. And therefore, you can control who you are.

Basically, I had a complex tibia fracture, also fractured my fibular head, my tibial plateau. Just kind of everything was in pieces. She said she also suffered compartment syndrome, explaining that the physical trauma caused pressure to build up in her leg, putting her muscles, nerves, and tendons at risk. Her surgeon, Hackett, had to perform a fasciotomy, and she said he saved [her] leg from being amputated.

ICYMI: The 2026 Winter Olympics are currently underway in Milano Cortina. From the "Quad God" to all the athletes winning gold, there has been a ton of buzz around this year's games. And while we watch history happen, let's take a walk down memory lane and see how fan-favorite Olympians have transformed over the years: 1. To start, Michael Phelps made his first Olympic appearance at the 2000 Summer Games in Sydney, Australia, when he was just 15 years old:

Since the start of her international short-track speedskating career just over seven years ago, 24-year-old American Corinne Stoddard has established herself as one of the best competitors in her field. The Seattle native currently sits third in the world rankings for both the 500-meter and 1,000-meter events, and fourth in the rankings for the 1,500 meters. When Stoddard first began competing internationally, the reputation of American short-track speedskating was arguably at its nadir. Her prowess on the ice has helped change that.

They're the only reason I'm here. They've done everything for me. They've watched the kids every step of the way, and they've encouraged me and supported me. I've had so many nannies throughout the years that have allowed us to get here. It's been incredible.

If you're watching the Olympics this year, or have watched in the past, you've probably wondered how the top athletes in the world bolster themselves emotionally for high- stress situations, being exposed and visible to millions of viewers in difficult moments, and how they deal with failure and defeat and become resilient. Dr. Cindra Kamphoff, whose MD-level background in sports psychology, two decades of work with professional and Olympic athletics, and The High Performance Mindset podcast, has developed techniques that are helpful to people inside or outside of the sports arena.

Jadin O'Brien thought she was being scammed. The Milan Cortina Olympics and the sport of bobsled, for that matter were not anywhere near O'Brien's radar a couple years ago, when the Notre Dame track and field star saw that someone sent her a direct message on Instagram. The message was ignored. Several months later, the same person slid into O'Brien's DMs again.

Only the women's event remains, and the U.S. squad, also known as the Blade Angels, is the strongest in decades. Going in, I thought they might snap Team USA's 20-year medal drought in women's figure skating by leaving the 2026 Games with two of the three medals. After the short program, however, two angels have fallen, and only one American, reigning World Champion Alysa Liu, remains in the hunt for gold.

There were good times and not-so-good times, but I think once I was progressing at a constant rate, that's when I felt more confident in my chances of making the team,

Over the last year, the Tr*mp administration has aimed to eradicate trans people from public life, issuing executive orders that curtail their access to healthcare and vital services. Trans people also face restrictions on selecting their gender for travel documents, using public restrooms and the ability to serve openly in the military. Last year, the Supreme Court upheld a state ban on gender-affirming care for minors, and seems poised to uphold a trans sports ban this session.

"I get just enough to cover my rent a month," she told the . "It's not enough to be a career and this is a full-time job."

In an exclusive interview released by the Olympics, Italian alpine skier and two-time medalist Sofia Goggia shared that quieting the mind is an essential part of her approach to training as well as life. "Meditation is a moment of centering, being here and now, and observing thoughts as they pass through my mind without any judgement," she explains in her native Italian."I think meditation gives you...an inner sense of balance."

When I ask people how much they thought I earned as a US Olympian, they always guess an amount far above what I actually got paid. During the years I was part of the US fencing team from 2016 to 2021, I made $300 a month. This was the pinnacle of my fencing career, and yet I wasn't making enough to cover my living expenses. But this had always been my dream, and I had to pursue it at all costs.

"Honestly, today I feel like the win belongs to our wax team,"

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Out of World Cup action for 14 months after whereabouts failures, she dropped on to Birds of Prey as bib No 32 in the 45-racer field all women for the first time in the history of the legendary venue. With a few bends of her reconstructed knees, she snapped through the timing wand, charged through the Abyss (one of Birds of Prey's steepest pitches) and kept carving her way through the 1.7-mile (2.7km) drop's icy chop.

LIVIGNO, Italy -- Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris said he's "coming around and starting to feel like myself again" after suffering a concussion and pelvic injuries during a nasty fall in training on the big air course before the Milan Cortina Olympics started. In an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday, McMorris said he lost consciousness when he fell eight days earlier during training for the contest that opened the action at Livigno Snow Park last week.