25 April 2007 - The Executive Board (EB) of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) today unanimously decided to declare permanently ineligible six athletes from the Austrian biathlon and cross-country skiing teams who competed at the Torino 2006 Olympic Winter Games (see full details below). This decision excludes them from taking part in any future Olympic […]
The Torino Olympics was the third Winter Games for Italian cross-country skier Girogio di Centa. (Photo: Clive Mason/Getty Images)
Here are the Final Results of the only other event today, besides the Men’s Ice Hockey Final …
1 - ITA - Giorgio di Centa (2:06:11.8)
2 - RUS - Eugeni Dementiev (2:06:12.6 / +0.8)
3 - AUT - […]
Canadian Chandra Crawford surprised everyone, including herself, by winning the gold medal in the 1.1-kilometre cross-country skiing sprint at the Torino Winter Games Wednesday.
Chandra Crawford, gold medalist (Photo CBC)
She led the race early and held it throughout over Germany’s Claudia Kuenzel and pulled away to win in a time of two minutes, 12.3 seconds.
Kuenzel […]
The Italian Team of Fulvio Valbusa, Giorgio di Centa, Pietro Piller Cottrer, and Cristian Zorzi wins the Gold (1 hour 43 minutes 45.7 seconds) at the 4X5km Men’s Cross-Country Skiing Relay. It was a victory won in spectacular fashion; the men had to trudge through the difficult terrains as snow falls on the Italian […]
According to the news …
Italian law enforcement authorities raided the residences of some staff members of the Austrian biathlon and cross-country teams early Sunday morning, apparently searching for banned substances, said two separate news reports.
The International Olympic Committee also confirmed it has conducted out-of-competition doping tests on “a number of Austrian cross-country and biathlon […]
The Russian Team of Natalia Baranova-Masolkina, Larisa Kurkina, Yulia Tchepalova, and Evgenia Medvedeva-Abruzova (what a mouthfull) takes the Gold (54 minutes 47.7 seconds) at the 4X5km Women’s Cross-Country Skiing Relay.
However, their victory didn’t come easy. Evi Sachenbacher Stehle built a considerable 12.5 second lead for the German team, in desperate chase were the Russian, […]
A day after Estonia’s Kristina Smigun won her second Gold in the Women’s 10km Classical event (her first was in the 15km Pursuit), compatriot Andrus Veerpalu took the Gold today in the Men’s 15km Classical.
Weather conditions was poor as overnight snow carried on into the competition. Despite that, Veerpalu posted a time of 38 […]
Belarussian cross-country skier Sergei Dolidovich has had to leave the olympics after testing positive twice for high haemoglobin levels his orginal ban of 5 days has now been extended by another 5, meaning that he will miss the men’s sprint event next Tuesday,
Dolidovich was one of 12 athletes to have had high haemoglobin […]
Canadian Ladies Beckie Scott and Sara Renner won a silver medal in the women’s team sprint cross-country skiing event today bringing the total of medals for Canada to 3, 1 for each flavour. And each won by a woman (come on guys, don’t you have any pride?) ;-).
Remarkably, Renner was able to recover from a […]
In an event missing nearly 12 athletes for blood doping, Kristina Smigun won Estonia’s first gold of these Olympic Games.
Kristina Smigun of Estonia skated to gold in the women’s 15-kilometer pursuit Sunday, the first cross-country event since 12 athletes were suspended from the sport for failed blood tests.
World Cup leader and favorite Marit Bjorgen of […]
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