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Marc Gisin flown to hospital after World Cup downhill crash

Associated PressDec 15, 2018, 8:08 AM EDT
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SELVA DI VAL GARDENA, Italy (AP) — Swiss skier Marc Gisin was hospitalized Saturday following a nasty crash in a World Cup downhill.

The 30-year-old Gisin lost control before a jump midway down the Saslong course on Saturday, flew into the air and landed awkwardly on his side and back.

He was lying motionless on the course before doctors and trainers arrived for assistance.

A rescue helicopter landed on the snow and took off for the hospital in nearby Bolzano with Gisin onboard after he had received treatment for almost a half-hour.

“His condition is stable enough that he can be flown back to Switzerland tonight for further diagnoses,” the Swiss ski team said in a statement. “The exact diagnoses of his injuries we expect Sunday afternoon.”

Gisin’s sisters are both highly successful skiers.

Dominique Gisin shared downhill gold at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, and Michelle Gisin won the combined at the PyeongChang Games in February.

Norwegian Aleksander Aamodt Kilde won Saturday’s race by .86 of a second over Austrian Max Franz and .92 over Swiss Beat Feuz. Bryce Bennett, Steven Nyman and Travis Ganong were fourth, fifth and sixth in the best World Cup downhill day for the U.S. in nearly two years.

Full results are here.

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Watch Gabe Grunewald win national title at 3000m after cancer diagnosis

By OlympicTalkJun 12, 2019, 9:43 PM EDT
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Gabe Grunewald never thought she would be a professional runner, much less a national champion after overcoming cancer twice.

The highlight race of the late Grunewald’s career has to be the 2014 U.S. Indoor Championships 3000m in Albuquerque.

In the final lap, she passed Jordan Hasay (who went on to become the second-fastest U.S. female marathoner in history) and three-time Olympian Shannon Rowbury (now the American record holder at 1500m) for the victory.

(Grunewald’s feet and Hasay’s feet made contact, which led to Grunewald later being disqualified and then reinstated two days after. The complicated episode was covered extensively at the time but does not diminish her accomplishment.)

“It’s been a long journey for me,” Grunewald told Paul Swangard on NBCSN after the race. “I hope that, in my career, that I can inspire other cancer survivors to continue to go after their dreams.”

The setting was special for Grunewald. She had raced at a nationals for the first time four years earlier in the same venue.

“It went terribly,” she said. “I lost a shoe, finished way in the back [10th place]. It put a dream in my head to come back here some day to see what I could do to become a champion.”

WATCH: One of Gabe Grunewald’s final races at 2017 Pre Classic

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Silver medalist’s DQ ups 2012 Olympic doping case count toward 70

Associated PressJun 12, 2019, 4:40 PM EDT
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LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Olympic canoe silver medalist Jevgenij Shuklin has been disqualified from the 2012 London Games for doping.

The International Olympic Committee says the Lithuanian has been stripped of his result in the canoe sprint C-1 200-meter class after testing positive for the steroid turinabol in reanalysis of urine samples taken seven years ago.

The IOC’s latest figures show 67 doping cases from the London Games.

The 33-year-old Shuklin is likely to be banned by the International Canoe Federation.

The IOC has yet to reallocate medals. Third-place finisher Ivan Shtyl of Russia could get silver, while Alfonso Benavides of Spain could rise to bronze.

The IOC’s retesting program for London can run into 2020.

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