Новости за 10.02.2018

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — Charlotte Kalla won the gold and Marit Bjoergen made Olympic history. In the first medal event of the Pyeongchang Games, Kalla won the women’s 15-kilometer skiathlon by more than seven seconds on Saturday. “It feels very good to be ahead of Marit,” the Swede said. “She’s a fantastic skier.” Despite her

JEONGSEON, South Korea — Folks who only tune in to Alpine skiing every four years, when the Olympics roll around, are probably familiar with past gold medalists such as Lindsey Vonn and Mikaela Shiffrin. Fans of the sport know all about World Cup overall champions Marcel Hirscher and Aksel Lund Svindal. There are, of course,

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — One might expect Mark Tuitert to be happy after helping give birth to one of the feel-good stories of the Pyeongchang Olympics. Far from it. The Dutch speed-skating gold medalist from the 2010 Vancouver Games pulled strings to help secure funding for Akwasi Frimpong, the skeleton athlete from Ghana whose unlikely

GANGNEUNG, South Korea — The Korean women’s hockey team, the first in Olympic history to combine players from North and South, took the ice Saturday night for their debut game in front of a raucous, sellout crowd on another historic night mixing sports and politics on an international stage. The debut against Switzerland came just

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — The words floated out of Max Parrot’s mouth while sitting with his parents one day and landed with the impact he fully expected. Alain Parrot and Suzanne Noel spun around in their chairs immediately, as tends to happen when your son tells you he’s bailing on college to pursue professional snowboarding

WARSAW, Poland — An adviser to Poland’s president has said he thinks Israel’s negative reaction to a law criminalizing some statements about Poland’s actions during World War II stemmed from a “feeling of shame at the passivity of the Jews during the Holocaust.” Andrzej Zybertowicz, a Nicolaus Copernicus University sociology professor who also serves as

RAMALLAH, West Bank — A senior official says Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will ask India’s visiting prime minister to support a multi-country sponsorship that would replace the United States as the sole mediator in future Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. Narendra Modi arrived by helicopter Saturday for his first-ever visit to an autonomous Palestinian enclave in the Israeli-occupied

JEONGSEON, South Korea — The men’s OIympic downhill course seems to suit the pre-race favorites. The weather might have other ideas. Three days of practice runs on the rarely-raced Jeongseon hill showed three top contenders in good form: world champion Beat Feuz of Switzerland and past Olympic downhill medalists Aksel Lund Svindal and Kjetil Jansrud

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — An army of high-flying drones expected to light up the sky at the opening ceremony of the Olympics was grounded. Viewers of NBC’s tape-delayed broadcast in the United States still saw it, but it was a pre-recorded version from a rehearsal. Intel Corp. was expected to launch 300 drones as part

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — As a kid, Jaelin Kauf traveled the world, cheering on her mom and dad while they skied over moguls and collected trophies and titles along the way. Now, ma and pa are returning the favor — following Jaelin all the way to the Olympics, where she might just add a gold

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — Charlotte Kalla of Sweden won the first medal of the Pyeongchang Games on Saturday and Norwegian cross-country skier Marit Bjoergen took silver in the women’s 15-kilometer skiathlon to become the most decorated female Winter Olympian ever. Bjoergen captured her 11th career medal, breaking a three-way tie with Raisa Smetanina of Russia

GANGNEUNG, South Korea — Robb Stauber knows who will start in net when the Americans kick off their quest for Olympic gold. The U.S. coach simply chooses not to share that information just yet. He also hasn’t told his trio of goaltenders yet either. Not that waiting to hear who gets the honor of playing

LOS ANGELES — Michaela Onyenwere had 17 points and 12 rebounds to lead No. 8 UCLA to a 69-46 win over Arizona on Friday night, the Bruins’ ninth straight victory. Kennedy Burke added 10 points and nine rebounds for UCLA (20-4, 11-2), which has won 11 of its last 12 and remains tied atop the

JERUSALEM — The Latest on Israel offensive against Iranian targets in Syria (all times local): 8:45 p.m. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has spoken with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the latest developments in the region. Netanyahu says Saturday that he informed Putin of Israel’s intention to continue defending itself against any aggression

JERUSALEM — The Latest on Israel offensive against Iranian targets in Syria (all times local): 7:50 p.m. Israel is calling on the United Nations Security Council to denounce Iran’s dispatching of a drone into Israeli territory. Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, says Saturday that “all of our warnings regarding Iran have proven

JERUSALEM — The Latest on Israel offensive against Iranian targets in Syria (all times local): 5:15 p.m. Lebanon’s Hezbollah has hailed Syria’s response to Israel’s attack on Iranian and Syrian bases in Syria, saying it signals “a new strategic phase” that puts an end to violation of Syrian territories. Israel said one of its F-16s

JERUSALEM — The Latest on Israel offensive against Iranian targets in Syria (all times local): 1:50 p.m. Lebanon is protesting Israel’s use of its airspace to target Syria, saying it will complain to the U.N. Security Council. In a statement Saturday, Lebanon’s Foreign Ministry also said it supports Syria’s “legitimate” right to respond to Israel’s

JERUSALEM — The Latest on Israel offensive against Iranian targets in Syria (all times local): 1 p.m. The Syrian military and its allies are denying that the unmanned drone Israel says it shot down violated the Jewish state’s airspace, saying it was on a regular mission gathering intelligence on Islamic State militants. The Saturday statement

JERUSALEM — The Latest on Israel offensive against Iranian targets in Syria (all times local): 11 a.m. An Israeli military spokesman says Iran is “playing with fire” by infiltrating Israeli airspace and will pay a heavy price. Israeli military spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus says Saturday that the unmanned aircraft Israel shot down was “on

JERUSALEM — The Latest on Israel shooting down Iranian drone over Syria (all times local): 10 a.m. A Syria war monitor says Israel has struck targets in central Syria and the southwestern suburbs of the capital Damascus in two separate and successive waves of airstrikes. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the first round

JERUSALEM — The Latest on Israel shooting down Iranian drone over Syria (all times local): 8:10 a.m. Syria says its defenses have responded to an Israeli raid on one of its military bases in the country’s center, calling it a “new aggression.” Syrian State TV quoted a military official Saturday saying that Syrian air defenses

LOS ANGELES — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came with an unambiguous message on his latest US visit: the North American Free Trade Agreement is a success that needs to be modernized, not abandoned. With the next round of talks over the trade pact set to begin in Mexico later this month, Trudeau used a

DALLAS — Jim Garrett, the father of Dallas Cowboys coach Jason Garrett and a longtime scout for the club, has died. He was 87. The team said Jim Garrett died Friday night with his wife, Jane, and his eight children by his side. The elder Garrett first joined the Cowboys as a scout in 1968

SEATTLE — Ruthy Hebard dominated on the interior while scoring 14 of her career-high 30 points in the third quarter, and No. 9 Oregon pulled away for a 76-63 win over Washington on Friday night. The Ducks (22-4, 11-2 Pac-12) rebounded from last Sunday’s home loss to No. 17 Stanford and overmatched the Huskies on

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah billionaire and philanthropist Jon Huntsman Sr. was remembered Saturday inside a basketball arena bearing his name as a generous and kind man devoted to his faith, family and community. The elder Huntsman was the founder and longtime executive chairman of Huntsman Corp., an $11 billion company that refines raw materials