Four Women Represent a Talented Team USA On Cover Of Sports Illustrated Winter Olympics Preview Issue | Associated Press

Sports activities Illustrated completely photographed Mikaela Shiffrin (plus Jessie Diggins, Erin Jackson, and Abby Roque covers) for the Winter Olympics Preview situation, on sale now. (Picture: Enterprise Wire)

Mikaela Shiffrin remains to be coping with the demise of her father and the crushing weight of expectations—so the dominant skier of her era has recalibrated her thought of Olympic success heading into Beijing, based on Stephanie Apstein. Speedskater Erin Jackson started transitioning from inline to ice skating simply 5 years in the past, however she’s already primed to make a run at a gold medal in Beijing. Michael Rosenberg covers Jessie Diggins’ return to the Olympic stage after a history-making 2021 season, adopted by her profitable Group USA’s first Olympic medal in cross-country snowboarding in 2018. U.S. hockey’s Abby Roque, profiled by Alex Prewitt, leads a brand new era’s quest for glory whereas breaking new floor in her sport as an Indigenous participant.

Winter Olympic Preview Subject Options

• Every little thing You Needed To Know About The Olympics However Have been Afraid To Ask: How do you ski in a rustic with little pure snow? How do determine skaters select their music? Will the Tremendous Bowl and Olympics overlap? SI solutions the burning questions going into Beijing.
• Paralympics Preview: Reigning downhill snowboarding gold medalist Andrew Kurka is discovering much more success by studying to decelerate his full-tilt assaults on the slopes, says Michael Rosenberg. Plus, sled hockey star Declan Farmer leads the U.S.’s chase for a fourth straight gold medal.
• Group Peterson Curling: Two sisters and their teammates have a superb probability at incomes the U.S.’s first Olympic medal within the girls’s curling competitors. With the skip – or most necessary job on the staff – altering arms, plus a COVID-inflicted offseason, the crew’s communication stays steadfast and prepared for Beijing.

• Manufacturing Values: The Tremendous Bowl returns to Los Angeles this 12 months for the primary time in practically three a long time – however the NFL by no means actually stopped going Hollywood. Contained in the enjoyable, generally cringey and sometimes field office-friendly historical past of the crossover between two cultural behemoths: skilled soccer and the films by Chris Nashawaty.
• Subsequent Serve:Jon Wertheim goes contained in the story of a former College of Texas tennis coach who helped a pupil get into faculty with a pretend recruiting profile and accepted a bag of money for doing it. Michael Heart is aware of why he received punished for his position within the infamous Varsity Blues faculty admission scandal. However, he can’t work out why the system that created it received off.
• Tall Order: Final 12 months, former NBA standout Shawn Bradley was paralyzed in a bicycle accident. Now confined to a wheelchair, Brian Burnsed particulars how he’s discovering the 7’6” body that introduced him fame and fortune presents a problem with out medical precedent.
• Houston, We Have a Downside: The Knicks NBA title drought isn’t prone to finish this 12 months – however it is likely to be so much shorter if not for a nightmare efficiency by John Starks within the 1994 Finals. In an excerpt from his new e-book, Blood In The Garden, Chris Herring goes inside one of the excruciating Finals meltdowns in NBA historical past.

• Trying again at three iconic Tremendous Bowl performs with alternate angles and hidden particulars from SI photographers – loopy catches by David Tyree and Santonio Holmes, plus Kevin Dyson’s failure to achieve for the purpose line.
• Alex Prewitt on the awkwardness of Olympic athletes from Hong Kong competing in Beijing.
• Rise, a brand new e-book from Lindsey Vonn, reviewed by Mark Bechtel.
• Tess Demeyer on elite NCAA gymnastics ground routines tapping into fashionable tradition.
• Ben Pickman on the arrival of on-line authorized sports activities betting in New York state.
• Faces within the Crowd: Paralympian Batoyun Uranchimeg represents Group USA Wheelchair Curling after emigrating from Mongolia; Dana Rettke for Volleyball and Amir Anderson for Boxing.

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