Gophers
Former Gopher Mead hoping to run in 10,000m in Rio Olympics
Hassan Mead enters the world championships with a personal-best time of 27 minutes, 33.04 seconds, the 14th-fastest time this season among the 29 athletes entered in Saturday's race.
Sports
Chart: world track championships
NBC and Universal Sports will televise 48 hours of live coverage from Beijing beginning Saturday.
Sports
Nichols in second at U.S. women's gymnastics championships
The Little Canada native trailed two-time defending world champion Simone Biles by 1.4 points after the first day of competition Thursday.
Local
St. Paul triathlete is first Minnesotan to qualify for 2016 Olympics
Victory on the course for the 2016 Games earns a second berth for St. Paul triathlete Gwen Jorgensen.
Sports
Twin Cities swimmer's near miss fuels Olympic dreams for Rio in 2016
David Plummer, a former Gophers swimmer, is going all out to qualify for next year's Games after missing out in 2012.
Sports
Chart: Minnesota's Summer Olympic hopefuls
Plenty of athletes with Minnesota connections will be chasing spots on the U.S. Olympic team in the months to come for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games. Staff writer Rachel Blount takes a look at some of the most prominent, listed by sport.
Local
'Miracle on Ice' goalie empties attic, puts it all on auction block for $5.7 million
Jim Craig is selling his gold medal and the U.S. flag that was draped over his shoulders in one of the iconic images of the "Miracle on Ice" team.
North Metro
Off the tower and on to stardom for Elk River diver
Laura Ryan's new focus on springboard diving has fueled her Olympic dream.
Sports
Chart: FINA World Championships info
2,500 athletes from 186 countries will compete for world championships in swimming, diving, synchronized swimming, open-water swimming, high diving and water polo.
North Metro
A Twin Cities cycling survivor, the NSC velodrome, rolls along
The embattled gem of a bicycle racing facility in Blaine has survived a quarter-century of challenges.
Sports
Sunday Q&A: Jennie Finch, Olympic softball gold medalist
Jennie Finch led the Arizona softball team to the 2001 College World Series championship and won an Olympic softball gold medal with Team USA in 2004.
Lindsey Vonn reveals breakup with Tiger Woods
"We both lead incredibly hectic lives that force us to spend a majority of our time apart."
Minneapolis
'Miracle on Ice' team doctor, 93, mugged while at wife's Mpls. grave
V. George Nagobads, 93, "sustained serious injuries" but drove himself to a hospital, a police report read.
Sports
Vonn returns home after showing the world she hasn't gone away
Skier Lindsey Vonn keeps the comebacks coming, returning to her home state Wednesday as a champion after two years of painful rehab.
St. Paul
Hamline chosen to host U.S. Paralympics in June
Roughly 200 track and field athletes expected.
Sports
Vonn takes Super-G race
Lindsey Vonn won a World Cup Super-G on Sunday to regain the lead in the discipline with one race remaining. Vonn is chasing her fifth Super-G World Cup title and stretched her record with a 23rd race win in the event.
Sports
Paralympian Aaron Pike takes quickly to biathlon's challenges
Aaron Pike, who became accomplished in cross-country skiing and biathlon in barely a year, will race for the U.S. at the Nordic world championships.
Sports
Souhan: Vonn powers through powder and changes her sport
When Tiger Woods and Lindsey Vonn started dating, one of them was considered the greatest ever, someone whose power had transformed the competitive landscape of a sport. That's still the case.
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