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Gold medal hopefuls get glamourous
by Westbound Boarder
posted January 18, 2010 at 2:20pm
The Olympics are just around the corner, and people are a-buzzing about a couple females prepared to take the throne - namely, Kelly Clark, Hannah Teter, Gretchen Bleiler, and Lindsey Jacobellis. A few months ago, these women participated in a photo sho...more
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Meet Team Visa
by Athletic Women Blog
posted January 12, 2010 at 4:11pm
Another look—this time thanks to Visa—at some of the world's best female athletes preparing for the 2010 Winter Olympics, three members of "Team Visa": Julia Mancuso
Lindsey Jacobellis
Angela Ruggiero
Something else Visa wa...more
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Kelly Clark heading to Vancouver
by Pretty Tough
posted January 9, 2010 at 3:16pm
Snowboarder Kelly Clark secured a trip to her third Olympics this week.
Clark defeated 2006 gold medal winner Hannah Teter to make her two for two this season in the U.S. Grand Prix events, which are being used to determine the riders who will represent ...more
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Team USA – “Only One” T-shirt
by Sports Girls Play
posted January 8, 2010 at 3:44pm
For Christmas I asked for a variety of things – a new golf club, Winter Olympics sweatshirt, and this -
The Team USA “Only One” t-shirt. I just love the message – and the fact that you can interpret it in a variety of ways.
Is it that the diff...more
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Lindsey Vonn works out
by Kaci Kust
posted January 7, 2010 at 1:38pm
If you've ever wondered how Olympic athletes do basic strength and conditioning training, check out this Under Armour video of U.S. Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn.
Vonn has taken a basic philosophy and added to it for her own personal philosophy that h...more
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Shania Twain carries Olympic torch
by Pretty Tough
posted January 4, 2010 at 4:18pm
Country singer Shania Twain carried the Olympic torch in arctic conditions in her childhood hometown on New Year’s Day, as the torch relay continued ahead of the 2010 winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Twain carried the torch for 400 meters and lit a cauldr...more
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SNB: Road to Vancouver
by Pretty Tough
posted January 3, 2010 at 2:34pm
The path to Vancouver is paved in U.S. Snowboarding Grand Prix halfpipes for athletes with an eye on Olympic medals. Earlier this month, the U.S. Snowboarding team Olympic qualifiers kicked off at Copper Mountain in Colorado with riders debuting the hig...more
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Best wishes for Kevin Pearce and his loved ones
by Westbound Boarder
posted January 2, 2010 at 4:13pm
Kevin Pearce, a 2010 Olympic hopeful and snowboarding phenom (and a real contender for Shawn White, check out their last X-Games excitement), has sustained a serious head injury during a training session in Salt Lake City, Utah. Pearce was injured while o...more
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Lindsey Vonn and the Pre-Olympic Hype
by Sports Girls Play
posted December 27, 2009 at 10:54pm
The 2010 Winter Games are right around the corner, and if the media has their way, US Skier Lindsey Vonn will be a household name by the time the Opening Ceremonies are under way. Lindsey is entering her third Olympic Games at age 25, her last two appea...more
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Winter Sports News Roundup
by Sports Girls Play
posted December 20, 2009 at 7:06pm
The fact that we got 19″ of snow in the past 48 hours has got me in the mood to talk winter sports – after all, the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver are right around the corner!
The US Women’s Ice Hockey team has been named and two of its team ...more
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The new Olympic spirit?
by After Atalanta
posted December 3, 2009 at 12:23pm
So remember when everyone was all "boo hiss China"? They were about to host the Olympics and a lot of Americans got their retro commie high horses to talk about--well mostly how great the West and free speech and capitalism are. And granted there were a ...more
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Thinking about becoming a party crasher
by After Atalanta
posted December 1, 2009 at 11:43am
OK so I probably wouldn't get quite the amount of attention as those other party crashers that continue to make headlines (I don't know which is worse all the hoopla over the party crashers or the previous hoopla over the fact that curry was served at the...more
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Tough Love
by Draft Day Suit
posted December 1, 2009 at 11:24am
Herb Brooks is most famous for coaching the 1980 US Olympic hockey team. You have probably heard of them/believe in miracles. If not, Al Michaels’ comb-over has failed us all.
At any rate, I was watching a documentary about the whole selecting/buildi...more
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Bring on the Olympics: Luge
by After Atalanta
posted November 27, 2009 at 9:21pm
It's the day after American Thanksgiving and you know what that means...Time to talk luge. (What? Did you think I was really going to go the mall on Black Friday?)When I was in Canada a few weeks ago commercials for the Olympics were everywhere. Not so mu...more
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Fans can design Lindsey Vonn’s Olympic helmet
by Pretty Tough
posted November 19, 2009 at 10:51pm
As the Winter Olympics draw close, we can’t wait to bring you all the exciting promotions and activities being planned to support the Games and all the athletes.
One of our fave winter athletes is skier Lindsey Vonn. Now NBCOlympics.com invites fans ...more
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Ski Jumping: Not everyone is moving on
by After Atalanta
posted November 16, 2009 at 11:21am
The IOC has stated that, in the wake of the Canadian appeal's court decision to uphold the lower court decision, it is pleased that it can now move on and focus on the forthcoming games.Yes, it must be nice when a legal entity says it cannot hold you resp...more
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Final blow for female ski jumpers
by After Atalanta
posted November 14, 2009 at 12:41pm
The appeal, filed by a group of female ski jumpers attempting to get their sport into the Vancouver Games, was dismissed after two days of hearings in a Canadian court of appeals this week. The court agreed with the lower court ruling that it was the IOC ...more
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Weekly Twitter Wrap
by LHiggs
posted November 13, 2009 at 5:06pm
A popular discussion this week has been soccer violence, how it's been covered in the media, and how the coverage is being covered. However, this is a great find that should tell us a lot about women athletes and if they are getting more violent, or if th...more
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Ski jumpers still fighting
by After Atalanta
posted November 12, 2009 at 9:35pm
In my ongoing effort to offer some support for the women (and men) who continue to fight for women's ski jumping in the Vancouver Olympics (less than 100 days away now) I direct you to this article from the Christian Science Monitor. It is quite thorough ...more
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Olympic flame for Vancouver Games lit in Greece
by Pretty Tough
posted October 22, 2009 at 7:58pm
With only 113 days until the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, the Olympic torch was lit today in a ceremony at the site of the ancient Olympics in Greece. A relay will take the torch 28,000 miles around Canada before the start of...more
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Female jumpers: Whatcha talkin' about, Rogge?
by After Atalanta
posted September 15, 2009 at 11:47am
Well they put it much more politely, of course. But here is the letter by female ski jumpers basically asking for explicit answers as to why they have been excluded from the forthcoming winter Olympics.In addition to citing the human rights laws of Canada...more
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Women's Hockey: (No) check, please
by After Atalanta
posted September 9, 2009 at 11:37am
The perennial debate in women's hockey is back, intensified by the forthcoming start of the season, and the Vancouver Olympics. To check or not to check.It's an issue the semi-pro players in Nancy Theberge's study of Canadian hockey spoke about. And it ap...more
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