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Austria wins doubles luge title, Britcher medals for US
IGLS, Austria (AP) — Thomas Steu and Lorenz Koller of Austria clinched the World Cup luge doubles overall championship Sunday, while Natalie Geisenberger of Germany moved even closer to what could be her eighth women’s season-long title. It also was a big day for USA Luge: Summer Britcher gave the...
Swiss skier Beat Feuz wins 2nd Kitzbühel downhill in 3 days
KITZBÜHEL, Austria (AP) — For the second time in three days, Beat Feuz triumphed in a race that he had unsuccessfully tried to win for a decade. The Swiss skier won this weekend’s second men’s World Cup downhill on the Streif course Sunday, repeating his victory from two days earlier....
King Felix: Loch wraps up 7th World Cup luge season title
IGLS, Austria (AP) — A year ago, Germany’s Felix Loch endured the worst season of his career. This year, he’s enjoying perhaps the most dominant season in men’s luge history. Loch is the World Cup men’s overall champion for the seventh time, clinching the title Saturday with his...
Austria presents national strategy against anti-Semitism
BERLIN (AP) — The Austrian government on Thursday presented a national strategy on fighting rising anti-Semitism that includes improving the protection of synagogues, improved education about Judaism and stricter prosecution of hate crimes against Jews. The Alpine country's Europe Minister, Karoline...
Motorbike museum in Austrian Alps goes up in flames
BERLIN (AP) — Fire investigators picked their way through the charred remains of a motorbike museum in the Austrian Alps on Tuesday, searching for clues to the cause of the blaze that destroyed more than 200 exhibition pieces, many of them collectors' items. The fire early Monday at the Top Mountain...
The Latest: Canadian women’s hockey team opens Calgary camp
The Latest on the effects of the coronavirus outbreak on sports around the world: ___ The Canadian women’s hockey team opened a 35-player camp in a Calgary bubble. The 14-day camp is the first physical gathering of national-team players in months because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Hockey Canada invited 47...
The Latest: Slovakia wants tests for nearly all in nine days
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — Slovakia is launching a project to test almost all citizens for the coronavirus in nine days. The government hopes the nationwide testing will speed up a recovery from the latest wave of the infections, make it possible for students to return to school in February, help the health...
Austria extends lockdown to Feb. 7, toughens some measures
BERLIN (AP) — The Austrian government is extending the country's lockdown until Feb. 7 in a drive to push down still-high infection figures as officials worry about the possible impact of new coronavirus variants. Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said Sunday that some measures will also be tightened as a result...
Loch on the brink of clinching World Cup luge overall title
OBERHOF, Germany (AP) — Felix Loch is about to reclaim his title as World Cup luge overall champion. The two-time Olympic champion from Germany is now virtually assured of claiming the seasonlong men’s overall title for the seventh time after dominating yet another race Saturday. He was a...
The Latest: Mexico hits another record for COVID-19 cases
Mexico posted a record spike in coronavirus cases on Friday, with 21,366 newly confirmed infections, about double the daily rate of increase just a week ago. The country also recorded 1,106 more deaths. It was unclear if the spike was due to the presence of the U.K. virus variant, of which only one case has so...
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