Rachel Bachman, WSJ sports reporter
@realbachscore.bsky.social
I write about college, Olympic and other sports for @wsj.com. Proud graduate, Minneapolis South High School.
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No One Wanted to Finance Their Stadium. Now Every Game Is a Sellout.
Building a professional women’s soccer venue was seen as brash. Now the Kansas City Current’s is a blueprint for others.
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The stadium for the Kansas City Current -- whose construction 40 banks refused to finance because there had never been a professional stadium built for a women's team -- just finished its second consecutive season of sold-out games.
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Women have been skiing in the Olympics since 1936. Today was the first time a woman set a course for an Olympic Alpine skiing event.
Mikaela Shiffrin’s team got a win today. Her coach took another chunk out of the glass ceiling.
Mikaela Shiffrin's coach makes Olympic history in Cortina giant slalom
Mikaela Shiffrin's coach, Karin Harjo, became the first woman to set a course for an Olympic Alpine skiing event, designing the women's giant slalom.
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February 15, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Women have been skiing in the Olympics since 1936. Today was the first time a woman set a course for an Olympic Alpine skiing event.
Find you an Olympic gold medalist in the downhill who also knows how to train cats.
February 15, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Find you an Olympic gold medalist in the downhill who also knows how to train cats.
I came across this Dolomite* king in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, where part of the Winter Olympics are being held.
*Dolomite as in Italian alps, not the legendary 1975 film, Dolemite.
*Dolomite as in Italian alps, not the legendary 1975 film, Dolemite.
February 14, 2026 at 12:28 PM
I came across this Dolomite* king in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, where part of the Winter Olympics are being held.
*Dolomite as in Italian alps, not the legendary 1975 film, Dolemite.
*Dolomite as in Italian alps, not the legendary 1975 film, Dolemite.
Real-life Heated Rivalries at the Milan Cortina Olympics:
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The Only Olympians Having a Less Romantic Week Than That Norwegian Biathlete
Engaged hockey rivals and newlywed skeleton competitors are making it awkward in Milan.
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February 13, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Real-life Heated Rivalries at the Milan Cortina Olympics:
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Peggy Noonan on The Washington Post:
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February 13, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Peggy Noonan on The Washington Post:
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The latest performance-enhancing substance at the Winter Olympics is... broccoli?
Why cross-country skiers are swigging concentrated vegetable juice that tastes like "a combination of wood and Dijon mustard."
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Why cross-country skiers are swigging concentrated vegetable juice that tastes like "a combination of wood and Dijon mustard."
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Olympians Can Eat All the Pasta in Italy. So Why Are They Drinking Broccoli?
Cross-country skiers are slurping up a potentially performance-enhancing drink of the concentrated vegetable in the hope of speeding up their recovery.
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February 12, 2026 at 5:31 PM
The latest performance-enhancing substance at the Winter Olympics is... broccoli?
Why cross-country skiers are swigging concentrated vegetable juice that tastes like "a combination of wood and Dijon mustard."
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Why cross-country skiers are swigging concentrated vegetable juice that tastes like "a combination of wood and Dijon mustard."
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The latest performance-enhancing substance at the Winter Olympics is... broccoli?
Why cross-country skiers are swigging concentrated vegetable juice that tastes like "a combination of wood and Dijon mustard."
www.wsj.com/sports/olymp...
Why cross-country skiers are swigging concentrated vegetable juice that tastes like "a combination of wood and Dijon mustard."
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Olympians Can Eat All the Pasta in Italy. So Why Are They Drinking Broccoli?
Cross-country skiers are slurping up a potentially performance-enhancing drink of the concentrated vegetable in the hope of speeding up their recovery.
www.wsj.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:31 PM
The latest performance-enhancing substance at the Winter Olympics is... broccoli?
Why cross-country skiers are swigging concentrated vegetable juice that tastes like "a combination of wood and Dijon mustard."
www.wsj.com/sports/olymp...
Why cross-country skiers are swigging concentrated vegetable juice that tastes like "a combination of wood and Dijon mustard."
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⚽️🇳🇱 A sign of the speedy growth of professional women’s soccer:
At the last men’s World Cup, nothing like this existed in the American women’s game. Now, the Dutch men’s national team will make the KC Current’s $20M training center its home base in 2026:
At the last men’s World Cup, nothing like this existed in the American women’s game. Now, the Dutch men’s national team will make the KC Current’s $20M training center its home base in 2026:
February 12, 2026 at 3:16 PM
⚽️🇳🇱 A sign of the speedy growth of professional women’s soccer:
At the last men’s World Cup, nothing like this existed in the American women’s game. Now, the Dutch men’s national team will make the KC Current’s $20M training center its home base in 2026:
At the last men’s World Cup, nothing like this existed in the American women’s game. Now, the Dutch men’s national team will make the KC Current’s $20M training center its home base in 2026:
If you want to know more about alpine skiing, check Downhill Olympic gold winner Breezy Johnson’s replies on Threads. Really dropping some knowledge.
February 12, 2026 at 2:20 PM
If you want to know more about alpine skiing, check Downhill Olympic gold winner Breezy Johnson’s replies on Threads. Really dropping some knowledge.
US skier Breezy Johnson got a gold medal in the Olympic downhill Sunday and an engagement ring Thursday after she crashed in the Super G (she’s OK).
They met on Bumble. She knit his hat.
They met on Bumble. She knit his hat.
February 12, 2026 at 1:41 PM
US skier Breezy Johnson got a gold medal in the Olympic downhill Sunday and an engagement ring Thursday after she crashed in the Super G (she’s OK).
They met on Bumble. She knit his hat.
They met on Bumble. She knit his hat.
Retired USWNT star Abby Wambach is one of the first high-profile athletes to leave the Wasserman sports agency after CEO Casey Wasserman surfaced in the Epstein files.
"Casey should resign. He should leave, so more people like me don't have to." -- Wambach on Instagram
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"Casey should resign. He should leave, so more people like me don't have to." -- Wambach on Instagram
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Exclusive | LA28 Olympics Organizers to Discuss Wasserman’s Future After Epstein Fallout
High-profile clients have departed Casey Wasserman’s agency after his name surfaced in a batch of recently released Epstein files.
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February 11, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Retired USWNT star Abby Wambach is one of the first high-profile athletes to leave the Wasserman sports agency after CEO Casey Wasserman surfaced in the Epstein files.
"Casey should resign. He should leave, so more people like me don't have to." -- Wambach on Instagram
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"Casey should resign. He should leave, so more people like me don't have to." -- Wambach on Instagram
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Scoop: LA28 Olympics organizers are set to meet to discuss chairman Casey Wasserman’s future after his name surfaced in the Epstein files.
Retired USWNT star Abby Wambach says she's leaving Wasserman's agency, which had long represented her.
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Retired USWNT star Abby Wambach says she's leaving Wasserman's agency, which had long represented her.
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Exclusive | LA28 Olympics Organizers to Meet to Discuss Wasserman’s Future After Epstein Release
High-profile clients have departed Wasserman’s agency after his name surfaced in a batch of recently-released Epstein files.
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February 11, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Scoop: LA28 Olympics organizers are set to meet to discuss chairman Casey Wasserman’s future after his name surfaced in the Epstein files.
Retired USWNT star Abby Wambach says she's leaving Wasserman's agency, which had long represented her.
www.wsj.com/us-news/la28...
Retired USWNT star Abby Wambach says she's leaving Wasserman's agency, which had long represented her.
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Roman Oben was just named SEC associate commissioner for football. The former Louisville player comes from working as an executive in the NFL, where one of his jobs was to promote youth football, including flag.
Interesting hire with flag debuting in the LA28 Olympics.
Interesting hire with flag debuting in the LA28 Olympics.
February 11, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Roman Oben was just named SEC associate commissioner for football. The former Louisville player comes from working as an executive in the NFL, where one of his jobs was to promote youth football, including flag.
Interesting hire with flag debuting in the LA28 Olympics.
Interesting hire with flag debuting in the LA28 Olympics.
The US alpine ski team has already tripled its medal total from Beijing 2022 with five more events to go (two men’s, three women’s):
February 11, 2026 at 2:35 PM
The US alpine ski team has already tripled its medal total from Beijing 2022 with five more events to go (two men’s, three women’s):
Breezy Johnson, the Olympic gold medalist in the downhill, moonlights as an educator on Threads
February 11, 2026 at 1:15 PM
Breezy Johnson, the Olympic gold medalist in the downhill, moonlights as an educator on Threads
The decor in my hotel in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy goes extremely hard
February 9, 2026 at 8:07 PM
The decor in my hotel in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy goes extremely hard
Team USA has its first gold medal of these Olympics.
Breezy Johnson, skiing before teammate Lindsey Vonn crashed on the downhill course and was airlifted to a hospital, won it.
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Breezy Johnson, skiing before teammate Lindsey Vonn crashed on the downhill course and was airlifted to a hospital, won it.
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The Mountain Drama That Ended With Team USA’s First Gold of the Winter Olympics
Breezy Johnson, a 30-year-old from Idaho, laid down the best time in the women’s downhill before her teammate Lindsey Vonn crashed out. She had never before won an Olympic medal.
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February 8, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Team USA has its first gold medal of these Olympics.
Breezy Johnson, skiing before teammate Lindsey Vonn crashed on the downhill course and was airlifted to a hospital, won it.
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Breezy Johnson, skiing before teammate Lindsey Vonn crashed on the downhill course and was airlifted to a hospital, won it.
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Reposted by Rachel Bachman, WSJ sports reporter
A good goal in life is to not write something so dumb and mansplain-y that the brilliant @nrarmour.bsky.social has to take time out of her very busy schedule to show the world what a dipstick you are. This is the column equivalent of getting taken to the woodshed. Pure, spot-on 🔥.
Our opinion page published a guest piece on Lindsey Vonn that was misogynistic trash. I had thoughts.
Your Lindsey Vonn advice is misogynistic trash. Keep it to yourself
A recent opinion piece about Lindsey Vonn was ill-informed, condescending and misogynistic. Here's why.
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February 8, 2026 at 5:14 AM
A good goal in life is to not write something so dumb and mansplain-y that the brilliant @nrarmour.bsky.social has to take time out of her very busy schedule to show the world what a dipstick you are. This is the column equivalent of getting taken to the woodshed. Pure, spot-on 🔥.
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Lindsey Vonn started skiing at a suburban Minneapolis ski area with a 318-foot vertical drop.
She's now 41, the best downhill racer in history, on the brink of winning an Olympic medal with one rebuilt knee and one knee with an ACL she tore barely a week ago.
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She's now 41, the best downhill racer in history, on the brink of winning an Olympic medal with one rebuilt knee and one knee with an ACL she tore barely a week ago.
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It Would Be the Miracle on Snow—and Lindsey Vonn Might Just Pull It Off
The American ski star who tore her ACL a week before the Winter Olympics has completed two successful training runs. Now she is a legitimate contender for a medal in Sunday’s downhill.
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February 7, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Lindsey Vonn started skiing at a suburban Minneapolis ski area with a 318-foot vertical drop.
She's now 41, the best downhill racer in history, on the brink of winning an Olympic medal with one rebuilt knee and one knee with an ACL she tore barely a week ago.
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She's now 41, the best downhill racer in history, on the brink of winning an Olympic medal with one rebuilt knee and one knee with an ACL she tore barely a week ago.
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He has since made his X account private
An opinion piece by a man that included the line "I am no doctor" criticized Lindsey Vonn's plan to race the Olympic downhill Sunday on a torn ACL.
Vonn responded to him in real time.
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Vonn responded to him in real time.
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February 7, 2026 at 3:47 PM
He has since made his X account private
An opinion piece by a man that included the line "I am no doctor" criticized Lindsey Vonn's plan to race the Olympic downhill Sunday on a torn ACL.
Vonn responded to him in real time.
eu.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Vonn responded to him in real time.
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February 7, 2026 at 3:25 PM
An opinion piece by a man that included the line "I am no doctor" criticized Lindsey Vonn's plan to race the Olympic downhill Sunday on a torn ACL.
Vonn responded to him in real time.
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Vonn responded to him in real time.
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Swiss ski racer Franjo von Allmen just won gold in the Olympic downhill.
He already had achieved a different kind of immortality: There is a sausage named for him at his local butcher.
(H/t @nickzaccardi.bsky.social)
He already had achieved a different kind of immortality: There is a sausage named for him at his local butcher.
(H/t @nickzaccardi.bsky.social)
February 7, 2026 at 1:18 PM
Swiss ski racer Franjo von Allmen just won gold in the Olympic downhill.
He already had achieved a different kind of immortality: There is a sausage named for him at his local butcher.
(H/t @nickzaccardi.bsky.social)
He already had achieved a different kind of immortality: There is a sausage named for him at his local butcher.
(H/t @nickzaccardi.bsky.social)
Anyway, here's a photo of freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy at Sochi 2014, at the time competing for the U.S., with his silver medal in slopestyle and the stray puppy he adopted.
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February 6, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Anyway, here's a photo of freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy at Sochi 2014, at the time competing for the U.S., with his silver medal in slopestyle and the stray puppy he adopted.
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The Olympic men's downhill Saturday will be held on the Stelvio, a slope so terrifying that one ski analyst called it "the gray ribbon of death."
It is perilously icy, long and dizzyingly steep. Skiers can reach 90 miles an hour on it:
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It is perilously icy, long and dizzyingly steep. Skiers can reach 90 miles an hour on it:
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The ‘Ribbon of Death’ Is the Most Petrifying Ski Course in Olympic History
The Stelvio ski slope is where the world’s best men’s downhill skiers will vie for gold. They’ll also be trying just to make it off the mountain in one piece.
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February 6, 2026 at 5:06 PM
The Olympic men's downhill Saturday will be held on the Stelvio, a slope so terrifying that one ski analyst called it "the gray ribbon of death."
It is perilously icy, long and dizzyingly steep. Skiers can reach 90 miles an hour on it:
www.wsj.com/sports/olymp...
It is perilously icy, long and dizzyingly steep. Skiers can reach 90 miles an hour on it:
www.wsj.com/sports/olymp...