Coleraine, MN, December 29. — Hilary McNamee (Fort Fairfield, ME) and Meagan Toussaint (Madawaska, ME) won for the second day in a row with victories in the Pursuit Format competitions today at the Youth/Junior World Championship Team Trials.
The two women form the Maine Winter Sports Center won the Youth and Junior categories. They were the […]
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 […]
CHAMONIX 1924
January 25, 1924
It was held in France, 83 years ago!
But, of course, they didn’t know what it was while it was going on. The IOC just named it as such afterwards. Originally, the competition was called International Sports Week 1924.
Trivia: First event to be decided on was the men’s 500m speed skating where Charles […]
Follow up #4 to a previous post ..
The president of the Austrian ski federation revealed that two athletes “may have used illegal methods” at the Torino Olympic Winter Games.
Federation president Peter Schroecksnadel told reporters Tuesday that Wolfgang Perner and Wolfgang Rottman, both of whom fled Italy when the team’s Olympic residences were raided […]
Another Follow up ==> to my second post HERE …
Last Updated: Sun Feb 19 19:58:21 EST 2006
CBC Sports
Walter Mayer, the man whose appearance at the Torino Winter Olympic Games set off a raid by Italian police on the Austrian nordic ski team, has been taken into custody by Italian police after he allegedly […]
Follow up => to my previous post … Blame the police?
Italian law enforcement authorities raided the Olympic residences of Austria’s biathlon and cross-country teams early Sunday, but found no evidence of doping. It marked the first anti-doping police raid on athletes in Olympic history.
…….”They checked every drink, every food, and they […]
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 […]
France’s Defrasne finishes first! Now say that five times quickly.
Vincent Defrasne’s chance of even stepping onto the podium seemed over when he stumbled on top of a hill after an ardous climb.
But the tenacious Frenchman quickly recovered, and made a mad dash to overtake Norway’s Ole Einar Bjoerndalen less than a hundred meters before […]
Russian biathlete Olga Pyleva, the silver medallist in Monday’s 15-kilometre race, tested positive for a banned substance at the Torino Olympics.
[..more..]
Olga was scheduled to race in today’s Ladies Biathlon 7.5 km Sprint race … Here are the final results for that
Rank / NOC / Result / Behind
1 - FRA - Florence Baverel-Robert (22:31.4)
2 - […]
Sven Fischer of Germany edged out two-time defending Olympic champion Ole Einar Bjoerndalen to take the Gold at the Biathlon event.
Fischer finished the 10km sprint in 26 minutes 11.6 seconds. His closest rival, Silver Medalist Halvard Hanevold of Norway, was 8.2 seconds behind.
Fischer elevated (Source: International Olympic Committee)
Tags: Biathlon, Torino_2006, turin, winter-games, winter_olympics, winter_olympics_2006Share […]
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