Dutch star Jens van 't Wout shares Olympic podium with his brother and feels like he won the lottery
Dutch short track speedskating star Jens van ’t Wout already has two gold medals at the Milan Cortina Olympics, but Wednesday’s bronze medal felt like winning the lottery. “We always used to say, ‘Imagine if,’ like in the context of if I win the lottery,” Jens van ’t Wout said. Jens van ’t Wout won gold in the 1,500 meters and the 1,000 in Milan, but it was a first Olympic medal for Melle van ’t Wout, who returned this season from a serious knee injury that required surgery and kept him out for nearly two years.
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These are the brackets for men’s hockey semifinals at the Winter Olympics
After an intense quarterfinal round — three games of which were decided in overtime — the semifinalists are Slovakia, Finland, Canada and the United States.
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Riviera has a long history and a long par 3 for Genesis Invitational
Riviera has evolved over its 100 years as one of the best golf courses in America, no greater example than the fourth hole that now has a scorecard yardage of 273 yards that makes it the longest par 3 among regular PGA Tour stops. “A horrible change,” Rory McIlroy said, the most blunt assessment of the hole Ben Hogan once called the greatest par 3 in America. “Hit and hope,” Collin Morikawa said.
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