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Light the Torch – Beijing Olympics and Other Olympic News

February 25th, 2006

B-0-0-0-de’s 0lympics at T0rin0

The 2006 Winter Olympics is one Bode Miller wants to forget.
Coming in as the Poster Child of the American delegation, Miller exits the game, frustrated, ego-bruised, and empty-handed.

Some Miller would be great for Bode right about now… (Source: Newsweek Magazine)
This is not a slam on Bode, he is still a great athlete. But looking […]

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February 24th, 2006

Mancuso Made It!

Julia Mancuso became the first American Woman to win an Olympic Alpine Skiing event (Giant Slalom) since Picabo Street did it back in 1998.
Skiing in less-than-perfect weather sans her signature good-luck tiara (athletes MUST WEAR Head Protective Gear in the Giant Slalom event), Julia had two very strong runs down the challenging slopes, in both […]

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February 21st, 2006

Austria - Alpine Skiing Powerhouse!!!

After winning the Downhill event 5 days earlier, Dorftmeister is again on the podium with a Gold Medal around her neck. This time for the Women’s Super-G event (which was postponed yesterday due to inclement weather). Dorftmeister’s time was 1 minute 32.47 seconds.

Austria’s Raich and Dorftmeister competing in the Giant Slalom and Super-G […]

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February 20th, 2006

Alpine Skiing: race start-times pushed back

Official News from Torino Website .. for those of you actually following the scheduled timetable of events ..

Feb 20 2006
SESTRIERE, Feb 20 (Reuters) - The start times of Monday’s two Alpine ski races at the Turin Olympics have been put back to allow workers to clear snow from the pistes, organisers said.
Heavy snow […]

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February 19th, 2006

Women’s Super-G postponed

The women’s Super-G Alpine skiing event scheduled today for 12:00 local time (6:00 am ET) was postponed..
The Italian Alps were blanketed with snow and heavy fog Sunday morning, forcing ski race officials to postpone the women’s super-G at the Torino Games.
The race will be re-scheduled for either Monday or Tuesday
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Tags: Alpine_Skiing, […]

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February 19th, 2006

Oh no, Bode…not again!!!

The American’s woe at the Alpine Skiing event continues…

No ‘Miller Time‘ for Bode just yet… (Source: Newsweek Magazine)
Bode, Bode, Bode…what can we say? Miller came into the Winter Olympics as the World Champion, with 5 Gold Medals within reach. But until today, he doesn’t even have a podium finish, much less a Gold.
In […]

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February 18th, 2006

Aamodt wins Gold in Super-G

Super-G Gold
Kjetil Andre Aamodt (34) took gold in super-G and defended his previous Olympic gold. This is his third Olympic gold in Super-G and fourth Olympic gold in total. Or 20th medal at Olympics and world championships. Aamodt finished the race with pain in his knee from last Sunday’s Turin Games downhill.
Results
Aamodt won with […]

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February 15th, 2006

Dorfmeister (AUT) wins Gold, Kildow inspiring!

Austria’s Michaela Dorfmeister won the Women’s Alpine Skiing Downhill event (1 minute 56.49 seconds).
But perhaps more inspiring was Lindsey Kildow’s eighth place finish. Kildow suffered a horrific crash just two days ago while practicing.
Bothered by the injury, Kildow is understandably dissapointed. “The pain was something I was going to take no matter what…I […]

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February 15th, 2006

Alpine Skiing - Ladies Downhill

Although Canadian Kelly VanderBeek had the fastest run at the final training session for the women’s downhill (1:55.23) Tuesday, which determined the order of today’s event … Kelly ended up in 24th position. Here are the Final Results for this event:
Rank / NOC / Skiier / Time (Difference)
1- AUT - Michaela Dorfmeister (1:56.49)
2 - […]

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February 15th, 2006

Busy Day Today - February 15, 2006

According to today’s schedule of events, it looks like it’s going to be a busy day! I would just like to remind everybody that not only is this a group blog .. but according to the b5media site

… We are opening the site up as a true community endeavor.
… We have invited a variety of […]

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