Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
While skiing for UVM, he won UVM’s first NCAA cross country ski championship. After competing in the 1956 Olympics, he enrolled in the Army where he competed in biathlon. In 1959, he won the pre-Olympic North American biathlon. …
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Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
July 03, 2010 – Marit Bjoergen of Norway who was nicknamed “Queen of the Olympics” where she captured three gold medals, one silver and one bronze will likely not take part in the Tour de Ski 2010/11. Bjoergen wants to fully concentrate …
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Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
Former U.S. Ski Team member Errol Kerr competed in the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics representing Jamaica, the land of his father’s birth. While the 24 year-old Kerr placed ninth overall in the first ever Olympic skicross event you can …
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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
Weibrecht’s bronze medal helped spark the U.S. alpine ski team to a record eight medals in Vancouver. Overall, the U.S. Olympic squad celebrated its best Olympics ever, claiming the overall medal count with 37. …
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Sunday, June 13th, 2010
Debt: Winter) 1 / 2 Vancouver 2010 – Ski jumping (HS 140): Adam Malysz (Comments: Zimoch Thomas Olympics http://bit.ly/91h3Ps.
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Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
After a long struggle, sports governing body approves World Cup event that is expected to lead to a berth in 2014 Olympics
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Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
Winter sports » Women ski jumpers might have just moved another step closer to competing at the Olympics. The International Ski Federation has approved the creation of a World Cup circuit for women, starting in the 2011-12 season.
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Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
Winter sports » Women ski jumpers might have just moved another step closer to competing at the Olympics. The International Ski Federation has approved the creation of a World Cup circuit for women, starting in the 2011-12 season.
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Friday, June 4th, 2010
The International Ski Federation (FIS) unanimously agreed to submit a request to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) asking for ski halfpipe to be added to Olympics beginning in 2014 at the Sochi Winter Games. …
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Thursday, June 3rd, 2010
Four months after the U.S. Ski Team’s best-ever Olympics by far, fans of American ski racing got more great news Thursday when Vail-Beaver Creek was awarded the 2015 world alpine ski
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Sunday, May 2nd, 2010
… Best Ski Runs · Olympic joke writer wins Leacock prize · Vancouver’s green men set sights on Hawks, say they’re ready for Kane and Toews · Canada a hit with Lonely Planet’s Twitter audience in wake of Vcr Olympics: poll …
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Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
VANCOUVER – Ski resort company Intrawest Tuesday announced that it has successfully completed the refinancing of its corporate debt, which was due in December 2009. The company repaid its prior lenders in full and has completed a new loan, which is scheduled to mature in 2014. Terms of the new loan were not disclosed. Intrawest’s resorts include Whistler Blackcomb, a host of the 2010 Olympics …
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Saturday, April 10th, 2010
VANCOUVER, B.C. A Ghanaian and twenty-one others who came to Vancouver during the 2010 Olympics have made refugee claims in Canada, seven of them members of the “Olympic family.” Here is the original post: …
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Monday, April 5th, 2010
… 2014 Olympics in Sochi face terror and environmental concerns · Ski Season Winds Down · $170000 on Olympic tickets money well spent, says Vancouver councillor · Martin rink now 8-0 after easy victory over Americans …
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Friday, April 2nd, 2010
… Radiology plays greatest role to date at the Olympics Games in Vancouver · Zucker Says NBC Provided Wide U.S. Access to Vancouver Olympics · Czech champion Tomá Kraus on ski cross, Alaska and the Olympics …
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Thursday, April 1st, 2010
Since the Olympics, Bode Miller has been in perpetual chill mode.
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Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Since the Olympics, Bode Miller has been in perpetual chill mode.
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Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
Since the Olympics, Bode Miller has been in perpetual chill mode.
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Friday, March 26th, 2010
Short vid about Johnny Spillane and Billy Demong ski flying in Slovenia post Olympics
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Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Now that the Olympics and Paralympics in Vancouver/Whistler are over the spotlight turns to Mount Washington, as host to the 2010 Telus Canadian Para-Alpine Ski Championships.
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
She’s a female ski jumper. I mentioned how ridiculous it was that there was no woman’s ski jumping in the Olympics in the last IDM. I wasn’t aware of the fight over the idea. The IOC says it’s not competitive enough. …
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
Just a month after Scotty Lago’s Bronze medal bar antics got him axed from the Olympics, the U.S. Ski and Snowboarding Association is again feeling the sting resulting from public partying. Lago left Vancouver prematurely after incriminating photos of him and a woman posing with his medal at a bar raised the ire of Olympic officials and USSA President and CEO Bill Marolt. Marolt’s statement to …
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Sunday, March 21st, 2010
Cut price offers from the ski vacation companies for this year’s season in Europe has fallen for the second year running, and any hope that the winter Olympics in Vancouver would produce a late surge of bookings has failed to …
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Thursday, March 18th, 2010
After Olympic setback, visually impaired cross-country skier captures Paralympic gold medal…Cross-country skier Brian McKeever was selected for Canada’s Olympic team on Friday, making him the first winter sports athlete to compete in both the Olympics a nd Paralympics….December 22nd, 2009 more imagesmore imagesVisually impaired skier nears Olympic spotCANMORE, Alberta —…January 22nd, 2010 more imagesmore imagesVisually impaired skier to make Olympic historyCANMORE, Alberta —…
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Saturday, March 13th, 2010
After the introduction of Ski Cross to the Olympics last month, the sport may be taking off outside of it’s North American origins.
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Friday, March 5th, 2010
Olympic and World Cup champ, and serial do-gooder, Bode Miller sells an Olympics collector’s item to raise money for a friend who is battling…
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Just as its athletes wrapped up a highly successful Vancouver Winter Olympics, the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association (USSA) filed a lawsuit against one of its sponsors for nonperformance.
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
Peter Martens, the son of Clark and Theresa Martens of East Aurora, will compete at the World Junior Alpine Ski Championships in Valsugana, Italy, on March 6 and 7. Peter is 14 years old and is one of three American boys to qualify for this event. They will all compete for the Topolino Trophy. He qualified last March as the top ranking 13-year-old at the Eastern Junior Olympics held at Gore …
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Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010
With the Olympics coming to an end, we may no longer have the opportunity to ogle the likes of Lindsey Vonn and Julia Mancuso as they race down the slopes.
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