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In this photo taken on Sunday, Feb. 4, 2018, a freestyle skier from Belarus practices at a national training base just north of Minsk, Belarus. The lessons learned from the vaunted Soviet gymnastics program all those years ago are still producing Olympic gold medalists, in freestyle skiing. Competitors from Belarus won the men’s and women’s aerials gold at the 2014 Sochi Olympics, and they will be in contention again this year in Pyeongchang. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Freestyle skiers from Belarus looking for more Olympic gold

By YURAS KARMANAU - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2017, file photo, United States Olympic Winter Games luge hopeful Erin Hamlin poses for a portrait at the 2017 Team USA Media Summit in Park City, Utah. Hamlin will carry the U.S. flag into Friday night's opening ceremony at the Pyeongchang Olympics on Feb. 9, 2018. The four-time Olympic luger was chosen by fellow Team USA Olympians for the honor. Hamlin is retiring at the end of these Olympics, after nearly two decades of racing competitively. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) **FILE**

The Latest: Wellinger tops Stoch in ski jump qualifying

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International Olympic Committee member and Court of Arbitration for Sport president John Coates is projected on a screen as he delivers a report on the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics during the 132nd IOC Session prior to the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2018. Pictured below Coates are Ugur Erdener of Turkey, from bottom left, Zaiqing Yu of China, former IOC President Jacques Rogge, IOC President Thomas Bach and Christophe De Kepper of Belgium. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

The Latest: Cold comes to Pyeongchang ahead of Olympics

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International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, bottom center, leads the 132nd IOC Session prior to the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

The Latest: Olympic security workers tested for norovirus

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FILE - In this Feb. 15, 2014, file photo, men's 1,000-meter short track speedskating gold medalist Viktor Ahn, of Russia, gestures while holding his medal during the medals ceremony at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. Six-time Olympic gold medalist Ahn and three former NHL players are among 32 Russian athletes who filed appeals Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2018, seeking spots at the Pyeongchang Olympics.(AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

32 Russians appeal to CAS seeking Olympic spots

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH - Associated Press

Curling will be working overtime at Pyeongchang Olympics

By JIMMY GOLEN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 22, 2017 file photo, NFL sportscaster Mike Tirico sits on the sideline set before an NFL football game between the New England Patriots and the Atlanta Falcons in Foxborough, Mass. Tirico is replacing Bob Costas as host of NBC's prime-time Olympics coverage, which starts Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018, from South Korea. Costas was host for 11 Olympic games. (AP Photo/Bill Sikes, File)

NBC’s Tirico set to fill Costas’ shoes in Korea

By DAVID BAUDER - Associated Press

Virgin Islands loses appeal at CAS to get Olympic entry

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Russian Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Mutko speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Moscow in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Feb. 2, 2018. Mutko says Russian athletes whose doping bans were lifted deserve to be treated as &quot;clean and honest&quot; at the Pyeongchang Olympics. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin)

Mutko: Russians deserve to be treated as ‘clean and honest’

By JAMES ELLINGWORTH - Associated Press

Matthieu Reeb, CAS Secretary General, speaks during a press conference about Russian athletes who are challenging the decisions taken by the Disciplinary Commission of the International Olympic Committee (IOC DC) ahead of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

28 Russians have Olympic doping bans lifted

By James Ellingworth - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2014 file photo Russia's gold medal winner Alexander Legkov skis past the Olympic rings during the men's 50K cross-country race at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2018 to reinstate Leskov as gold medal winner of the men's 50-kilometer cross-country skiing which he was stripped of on doping allegations earlier. (AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

The Latest: Russians want 15 more Olympic invitations

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Special Olympic winter games wrap up at Maine’s Sugarloaf

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Iouri Podladtchikov crashes during his second run in the men's superpipe finals at the Winter X Games on Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018, in Aspen, Colo. The Olympic champion snowboarder had to be carted off the course Sunday during the run. (Anna Stonehouse/The Aspen Times via AP)

I-Pod injury a stark reminder of dangers of halfpipe

By EDDIE PELLS and PAT GRAHAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2013, file photo, Chloe Kim watches the replay of her second run during the snowboarding superpipe final at the Dew Tour iON Mountain Championships in Breckenridge, Colo. Kim's parents are from South Korea, where the Olympic games will be held starting Feb. 9, 2018. Among the handful of relatives who live there is Chloe's grandma, who has been known to brag about her high-flying granddaughter if, say, she's out to tea with her friends and a picture of Chloe happens to appear in the newspaper, which happens fairly often. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson, File)

Chloe Kim: California kid heads to South Korea’s games

By EDDIE PELLS and PAT GRAHAM - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2017, file photo, J.R. Celski competes in the men's 1,500-meters during the U.S. Olympic short track speedskating trials in Kearns, Utah. Celski is headed to his third games as the Zen-like presence on the U.S. team in the calamitous sport of short track. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

J.R. Celski is calming influence amid chaos of short track

By BETH HARRIS - Associated Press

In this image 2015 provided by Jessica Wise, David Wise, left, and his sister Christy workout in San Marcos, Texas. When the doctor told Christy she would never fly a plane again, her goal was set. The Air Force pilot who lost her leg above the knee in a boating accident set about proving him wrong. Hers is a story of determination, perseverance and also about bringing an already tight-knit family even closer. Her twin sister, Jessica, is a surgeon and her brother, David, is an Olympic gold-medal freeskier. Their work is about giving second chances to amputees in third-world countries. (Courtesy Jessica Wise via AP)

Recovery: Wise family’s golden moments go beyond Olympics

By EDDIE PELLS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 29, 2017, file photo, Ryom Tae Ok and Kim Ju Sik of North Korea compete during the pairs free program at the Figure Skating-ISU Challenger Series in Oberstdorf, Germany. The 22 North Korean athletes now invited to compete at the Olympics in February 2018 are not likely to bring home any medals across the border from South Korea. Of all the athletes given late entries in five sports, only the figure skating pair met the qualifying standard on merit. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader, File)

The Latest: EU slaps sanctions on 17 more North Koreans

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In this Saturday, Jan. 20, 2018, photo, South Korean Oh Ju-yeon, 46, speaks during an interview in Seoul, South Korea. South Koreans seem generally happy they’ll see the North Koreans at their Olympics, but aren’t as pleased about sharing a team with them. “I think it will be emotionally moving to watch the athletes of both Koreans march under the same flag during the opening ceremony as we come from the same nation,” she said. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Not all South Koreans are happy about unified hockey team

By KIM TONG-HYUNG - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 23, 2017, file photo, United States' Becca Hamilton releases the stone during a match against Switzerland in the Women's World Curling Championship in Beijing. No one will work longer hours at the Pyeongchang Olympics than American curlers Matt and Becca Hamilton.By qualifying for both the new mixed doubles discipline and the traditional, single-gender curling event, the siblings from McFarland, Wisconsin, could be on the ice for as many as 50 hours _ by far the longest anyone will be in live competition at the Winter Games. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)

Curling will be working overtime at Pyeongchang Olympics

By JIMMY GOLEN - Associated Press

In this Jan. 11, 2018 file photo, Katie Couric poses in the press room at the 23rd annual Critics' Choice Awards in Santa Monica, Calif. NBC is bringing back Katie Couric to co-host the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics next month. She will be co-host with Mike Tirico, who is replacing Bob Costas as prime-time host of the games. The ceremony will take place in South Korea on Feb. 9. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Katie Couric returning for Winter Olympics opening ceremony

By DAVID BAUDER - Associated Press