Mabel Staton, the Black track and field standout who broke through racial barriers at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, has died.

An antidiscrimination lawsuit on her behalf helped lead to one of the first multiracial track teams in the Midwest.

Staton, who went by the name of Mabel Landry when she attended DePaul in the 1950s, before the school had a women's track team, was inducted into the university's athletic Hall of Fame in 2011.

Italian standout Sofia Goggia has narrowly avoided disaster during an awkward landing of a jump in the final downhill training session at the Alpine skiing world championships.

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