2005 FIS World Champion Nina Li successfully defended her title Saturday at the 2007 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships at Madonna di Campiglio. Ranked 4th after the first jump, she reclaimed the gold with a solid second jump as leading athletes made mistakes.
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Kudos to China for bagging the gold. It’s a […]
Dale Begg-Smith.
Canadian-born freestyle skier Begg-Smith wins in the first moguls event of the World Cup held in Canada. It’s his seventh world cup win and ninth podium placing for eleven events of his career.
And I quote,
The Olympic Winter Games gold medal winner scored 25.74 points for a narrow victory over French skier Guilbaut Colas on […]
I remember watching him on telly when he was awarded the gold in the last Winter Olympics at Torino. Then I hear in the news a bit of info about him. Born in Canada but now resides in Melbourne, Australia. He’s only 21 but is already rich beyond his years. He owns an internet pop-up […]
Xiaopeng Han’s (China) aerial acrobatics propelled him to first place in the Men’s Aerial Freestyle Skiing event. Han’s total score was 250.77, 2.09 points ahead of his nearest competitor, Dmitry Dashinski (Belarus), and 4.01 ahead of the bronze medalist, Vladimir Lebedev (Russia).
The ‘Hurricane’ a la Peterson (Source: AP Photo)
American Jeret “Speedy” Peterson’s signature move, the […]
Well, I said that I thought it was and interesting “sport” to watch (see previous post), and promised to do a little research to figure out what the heck’s going on. Thankfully, I didn’t have to go far .. as my favorite Olympic site .. CBC, has animated instructions explaining how the sport works […]
Now THAT’s entertainment! So far the Canadians are leading the preliminary qualifications (it’s still early however) .. with their “BACK/FULL-DOUBLE FULL-FULL” jumps … *wow*
Remember .. this is MUCH different than, for instance, USA’s “BACK/DOUBLE FULL-FULL-FULL” ..
Geesh .. I have to research this sport .. I don’t even know what I’m talking about!
… But .. […]
Alexandre Bilodeau could have made it to the highest step of the podium in Men’s mogul competition, yet finished 11th.
“It’s disapointing because I know I could have won a medal, maybe even the Gold”, said he, drying up his tears.
After making it to 11th place in qualifications, Bilodeau tried to amend these mistakes by attempting […]
Dale Begg-Smith (a transplanted Canadian from Vancouver who emigrated to Australia) took the Men’s Mogul competition today … Here are the Final Results
Rank / NOC / Skiier / Score (out of 30)
1 - AUS - Dale Begg-Smith (26.77)
2 - FIN - Mikko Ronkainen (26.62)
3 - USA - Toby Dawson .. (26.30)
Canada’s Marc-Andre Moreau just […]
I had to work today so I missed most of the live games today and NBC seems obsessed every olympics with figure skating. But I did have a chance to take in the Nordic Combined today and was tired just watching.
I also looked away in horror as Hannah Kearney went into nuclear meltdown on […]
Canada’s Jennifer Heil brought home the gold today in the Women’s Moguls!
A native of Spruce Grove, Alberta, Heil barely beat out Norwegian and French skiiers Traa and Laoura. Here are the final points and times:
Heil: 26.50, 26:69
Traa: 25.65, 27:33
Laoura: 25.37, 26:67
Go Canada!
Tags: Freestyle_Skiing, Torino_2006
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