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Competitors and fans take to the hill for the Norge Annual Winter Ski Jump Tournament on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026 at Norge Ski Jump in Fox River Grove.





All three men’s Olympic ski jumpers from Norge Ski Club in Fox River Grove plus a fourth American competitor breezed through Saturday’s normal hill qualifying rounds, advancing to the final day of competition scheduled for Sunday morning.



For the U.S. men’s national team, the next item on the to-do list isn’t the 2024 Paris Olympics. It’s not even the 2023 World Cup, which will end in the Philippines. It’s a qualifying tournament, in about three months.



Five years after U.S. volleyball star Foluk Akinradewo Gunderson could only watch the end of a crushing five-set loss to Serbia in the Olympic semifinals because of an injured knee, she helped lead her team one step closer to the ultimate prize.



A five-minute burst of action near the backstretch of the Olympic track served up the perfect snapshot of what is going right, and all that is going wrong, for the U.S. track and field team in Tokyo.






Carli Lloyd's look in the 86th minute with the United States trailing by a goal hit the crossbar as Canada won 1-0 and dropped the Americans into the bronze medal match. It is the second straight Olympics that the U.S. failed to reach the gold medal game.