Новости за 12.01.2022

In 1969, New York Jets quarterback Joe Namath “guarantees” a victory before leading his team to a 16-7 triumph over the Baltimore Colts in the Super Bowl. See more sports moments from this date.

Lindsey Vonn, a four-time Olympian, retired from competition in February of 2019 as the most-decorated woman ski racer in the world.Vonn became the first American woman to win gold in the Olympic downhill event in 2010. That same Vancouver games,…

Picabo Street fittingly grew up in Triumph, Idaho, and went on to become one of the most dominant speed skiers of the 1990s.Street won an unexpected silver in the downhill at her first Olympics in Lillehammer and followed it by…

Ted Ligety dominated the men’s alpine ski circuit from the time he joined the U.S. Ski Development team all the way up to his retirement last February. Ligety broke into the national lexicon at the 2006 Turin Olympics when he…

Freeski big air is one of seven sports making their debut at the Olympics this winter. The event is popular at the X Games and joins its brother, snowboarding big air, which made its debut in 2018.In freeski big air,…

Ester Ledecka isn’t sure how she did it, either. At the 2018 PyeongChang Games, Ledecka not only became the first woman to compete in snowboard and Alpine skiing at a single Olympics, she also became the first woman to win…

In the same Olympics as Mikaela Shiffrin, Bode Miller took to the podium as the oldest Olympic medalist in alpine skiing history. Miller was 36 years old when he won bronze in the super-G. It was his sixth Olympic medal—more…

Mikaela Shiffrin turned into a household name in 2014 when she became the youngest Olympic slalom gold medalist in either the men’s or women’s discipline. Shiffrin was 18 years, 345 days when she raced in Sochi. It was the first…

Austrian Hermann Maier shocked the world at the 1998 Nagano Olympics when he came back to compete after a harrowing downhill crash that sent him through three safety nets at an estimated 80 m.p.h. Maier avoided serious injury and days…

To say Tommy Moe was a longshot to medal is an understatement. Moe entered the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway, having never won a World Cup race and finishing bottom of the pack at the 1992 Olympics.He won gold in…

Michael Edwards is still looked at as the embodiment of the Olympic spirit, in which everyday people dream of participating in the games even if they didn't train a lifetime for it. Edwards, who carved a career as a plasterer,…

Bill Johnson became a national hero when he won an Olympic gold medal in downhill skiing at the 1984 Games in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, after nearly 50 years of European domination in the sport.Johnson grew up in Oregon and was frequently…

The “Killympics” weren’t so-named for a travesty, but rather for a gold medal sweep by French alpine star Jean-Claude Killy.Killy, then 24, won the downhill by .08 seconds despite accidentally stripping his skis of wax on a practice run, and…

Alpine skiing made its Olympic debut in men’s and women’s combined at the 1936 Berlin Games. It came six years after the FIS first recognized downhill ski racing as a sport. The governing body founded in 1924 initially only recognized…

The ​​first Winter Olympics was held in 1924 and has since served as fodder for some of the most memorable and inspired moments in sporting history. With the opening ceremonies for the 2022 Beijing Olympics coming Feb. 4, Curated looked…