More than a dozen Alaskans are in China competing in the Winter Olympics. Here are three storylines to watch as the Games unfold.
America’s Nathan Chen and Japan’s Hanyu Yuzura are the clear favorites for gold, but Messing could put himself in medal contention with a solid short program Feb. 7. He’ll bring INXS and Joe Cocker to the arena for a program choreographed to “Never Tear Us Apart.
In November 2019, she was crossing a downtown Anchorage street at a crosswalk when a woman driving a Jeep hit her. Halvorsen was thrown from the hood of the car to the pavement and, including a broken tibia, a skull fracture, a traumatic brain injury and the complete tears of two ligaments in her left knee. She has a 10-day memory gap of the accident and immediate aftermath and has called it a “near-death” experience.
That result paved her way to Beijing, where her story, already familiar to many in Alaska, will be shared with a worldwide audience.Defenseman Brian Cooper of Anchorage playing for Nebraska-Omaha in 2015 Now, at age 28, he’s headed to the Beijing for the biggest games of his life. One of eight defensemen on the 25-man U.S. roster, Cooper is a beneficiary of the NHL’s decision to skip the Olympics because of disruptions to the regular season by COVID-19.
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