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Rising costs of climate change threaten to make skiing a less diverse, even more exclusive sport

by Brian P. McCullough, Texas A&M University and Lance Warwick, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Watching skiers compete almost entirely on artificially made snow at...

Nigeria's first bobsled team running for pride and legacy

NEW YORK (AP) — Seun Adigun told herself her athletic career was done after she ran her last race at the 2012 Summer Olympics...

Lo Lo Jones Says She’s Sick of Being Slandered, Slammed after Early ‘DWTS’ Exit

Lolo Jones says she felt “broken, unlovable” and “embarrassed” after she was eliminated from “Dancing with the Stars” Tuesday night and penned an emotional letter…

Track stars Lauryn Williams, Lolo Jones one step closer to Winter Olympics

American bobsled team Lolo Jones and Jazmine Fenlator, right, earned a spot on the World Cup team.(AP Photo/Rick Bowmer) by Greg Botelho (CNN) -- It's a good bet that Lolo Jones and Lauryn Williams won't be wearing singlets for this Olympics. But it's also safe to assume that -- once again -- they'd be plenty fast. These two U.S. Track and Field stars got one step closer Saturday to another Olympic Games, this time in wintry Russia. They are among the women named Saturday as "push athletes" for the Americans' six-women bobsled team, according to the USA Bobsled and Skeleton Federation.

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