Raising Ski Great Mikaela Shiffrin, and Finding Balance

By BY MATTHEW FUTTERMAN from NYT Sports Her father, Jeff Shiffrin, loved watching his daughter win ski races, but he always said that wasn’t what life was about when raising a future champion.https://nyti.ms/2SkhisH

Get Ready for Olympic Break Dancing

By ANDREW KEH from NYT Sports To appeal to younger fans, organizers of the 2024 Games in Paris said they would recommend break dancing as a new sport.https://nyti.ms/2Sik6Va

Gracie Gold’s Battle for Olympic Glory Ended in a Fight to Save Herself

By KAREN CROUSE from NYT Sports Gold appeared to be a gold medal favorite in figure skating for the 2018 Winter Games. Then her mental health unraveled, and a cry for help became her boldest move.https://nyti.ms/2Tfxk6C

Vote to Reinstate Russia Exposes Rifts in Antidoping Community

By TARIQ PANJA and JULIET MACUR from NYT Sports When World Anti-Doping Agency voted last week to take Russia off the list of noncompliant countries, it expected a backlash, but probably nothing like this.https://nyti.ms/2QdjCze

Russia’s Antidoping Agency Is Reinstated by WADA

By VICTOR MATHER from NYT Sports Despite an outcry from athletes and the antidoping community, the world regulator of drugs in sports pushed ahead with lifting a ban on Russia’s antidoping agency.https://nyti.ms/2DdPdPJ

Denis Ten, 25, Olympic Skating Medalist, Dies After Stabbing

By VICTOR MATHER from NYT Sports Ten, who won bronze in men’s figure skating in 2014, was killed on Thursday in Almaty, Kazakhstan.https://nyti.ms/2Lk2dpF

Doping Whistleblower Sues Russian Olympians and Their Oligarch Backer, an N.B.A. Owner

By REBECCA R. RUIZ from NYT Sports Grigory Rodchenkov, Russia’s former antidoping lab chief, countersued three athletes who had accused him of defamation and took further aim at Mikhail D. Prokhorov.https://nyti.ms/2HDI1xU

Russia Faces Track and Field Expulsion Over Doping Denials

By TARIQ PANJA from NYT Sports Russia’s athletics federation has to acknowledge state-sponsored doping before its athletes can compete internationally.http://nyti.ms/2FnYKQZ

U.S. Biathletes Boycott Russia Event

By TARIQ PANJA from NYT Sports Citing safety concerns and frustrations with antidoping efforts, the American biathlon team says it will boycott the season ending event in Russia.http://nyti.ms/2CHFzza

Olympic Doping Bans Lifted for 28 Russians

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA from NYT Sports The Court of Arbitration for Sport overturned all penalties against 28 of 43 athletes. But the International Olympic Committee said it might not allow them to compete in South Korea.http://nyti.ms/2DS34H6

Russia Is Barred From the Winter Games, Yet Sending 169 Athletes

By VICTOR MATHER from NYT Sports Despite penalties for its doping scheme, Russia has used a side door to get a full delegation of athletes into the Pyeongchang Olympics.http://nyti.ms/2BsK9AR