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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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Wrestling really is taking off
by After Atalanta
posted January 6, 2010 at 12:27pm
Usually I post about another college or university adding women's wrestling to their roster of varsity sports. Sometimes it is to increase the number of opportunities for women to participate in sport; sometimes it is an attempt to "save" men's wrestling....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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Winter Olympic Word Search
by Sports Girls Play
posted December 29, 2009 at 1:11pm
I have multiple web sites, and one of my other sites is dedicated solely to kids printable activities. In celebration of the upcoming Winter Olympics I just created a Winter Olympic Sports Word Search and of course, I had to share it with my Sports Girls ...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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Hockey WNT to be announced today
by Women's Sports Blog
posted December 17, 2009 at 1:41pm
At the Mall of America. Nothing says hockey like Best Buy. The nats surely need to get some things settled because they were handled by the Canadians in the last match-up and the situation is starting to look serious.
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Passing the torch in women’s hockey
by Total Female Hockey Club
posted December 17, 2009 at 12:35pm
Tonight, I am bringing my players from the PEAC School into downtown Toronto to watch the Olympic torch relay. I’ve been fortunate to see two other torch relays in person (for Calgary ’88 and for Salt Lake City ’02) and words can hardly describe t...more
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Interview with Olympic Hurdler Damu Cherry-Mitchell
by Sports Girls Play
posted December 15, 2009 at 2:39pm
A month or so ago I did an email interview with US Olympic Hurdler, Damu Cherry-Mitchell after exchanging “tweets” with her on Twitter. I had posted about Kayla Williams winning vault at the World Championships and Damu shared the congratulations. Tha...more
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More eyebrow-raising IOC decisions
by After Atalanta
posted December 11, 2009 at 12:21pm
It's so lovely to find someone who agrees with you--especially on a cold, windy Friday morning as you feel a cold (but hopefully not the flu) coming on.The IOC has been making some changes to the summer games program, allegedly in the name of gender equit...more
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Women’s Olympic Boxing to Face Cuts
by The Glowing Edge
posted December 11, 2009 at 12:17pm
The London 2012 Olympics is a benchmark year for boxing since the International Olympic Committee (IOC) opened the way for women’s boxing to be included for the first time. However, women’s Olympic boxing may already be facing cuts as the British...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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