First Olympic women’s aerials champ Cheryazova dies at 50

MOSCOW — Lina Cheryazova, the first woman to win an Olympic aerials skiing gold medal, has died. She was 50. Officials in the Russian city of Novosibirsk, where Cheryazova was living for the last two decades, said she died “following a lengthy illness,” without giving further details. Competing for newly independent Uzbekistan, Cheryazova won gold