Headlines from myriad sports this week: - Sarah Hendrickson won the world championship in women’s ski jumping. - Kikkan Randall and Jessie Diggins won the world championship in cross-country skiing’s team sprint, the first skiing title for the USA in Nordic World Championship history. – The…
Tag Archive for ski jumping
Myriad Questions for … Sarah Hendrickson, ski jumper
by Beau Dure • • 0 Comments
This is the first of a new series called Myriad Questions, in which we’ll try to ask athletes a few questions a little more candid than their official bios and a little less technical than the specialty sites. We’ll learn…
Finally free to jump
by Beau Dure • • 0 Comments
At long last, the IOC has approved women’s ski jumping for the Olympic Games. The longer I covered the fight to get the event in the Games, the more absurd the opposition seemed. The Olympics are supposed to be committed to…
Midweek Myriad: Marta, Nadal, handball, 1260s, etc.
by Beau Dure • • 1 Comment
One of the joys of following a hundred sports or so is that you’re not stuck dissecting the Super Bowl to the point that it becomes joyless. Instead, we have all this: – Marta signs with Western New York. A…