Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By HOWARD FENDRICH, Associated Press Kirsty Coventry, elected last March as the first female president of the International Olympic Committee, touts the Milan Cortina Winter Games that officially open Friday as “the most gender-balanced in history.” That’s reflected in, and helped by, changes on the schedule over the coming weeks. A women’s doubles event was added to luge. A women’s large hill individual event appears in ski jumping for the first time at an Olympics. Ski mountaineering — the lone sport making its Games debut in Italy — has a mixed-gender event, while skeleton now includes one, too. The IOC frequently adjusts the programs for its...
