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Light the Torch – Beijing Olympics and Other Olympic News

January 5th, 2008

Press Release | Tomlinson and Smith Claim U.S. National Championship Titles

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (3 January 2007) — Keslie Tomlinson (Potomac Falls, Va.) and Caleb Smith (Lake Placid, N.Y.) won their respective U.S. National Championship titles today at the Olympic Sports Complex in Lake Placid, N.Y.
“This was a fun race for me, and I’m feeling really good about today’s result,” Tomlinson said. “I’m learning more each […]

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January 28th, 2007

Noelle Pikus-Pace Wins Gold and Makes History in the 2007 Women’s Skeleton World Championship

“I had tears in my eyes even before my last run and all I was thinking about was Feb. 16, 2006,” Pikus-Pace told The Associated Press in a telephone interview, referring to last year’s Olympic skeleton race. “That big margin is strictly because of the motivation I had in me, my desire, my mindset.” TIM […]

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February 21st, 2006

Great Britain Clinging On

The hope’s of a nation were raised after Rhona Cameron and the women curlers brought home Gold from Salt Lake city in 2002, that 4 years later in Turin the British medal haul would thrive, but it appears not to be, Shelley Rudman got us a silver in the Skeleton Bob, but her boyfriend Dr […]

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February 17th, 2006

Men’s Skeleton - Gold and Silver for Canada!

Here are the Final Results .. Way to go Duff & Jeff!
1 - CAN - Duff Gibson
2 - CAN - Jeff Pain
3 - SUI - Gregor Staehli
Other Canadian Athletes
4 - CAN - Paul Boehm
Way to go Paul too! :-)
Go Canada Go!
Tags: Skeleton

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February 17th, 2006

Britain’s First Medal

Shelley Rudman picked up Great Britain’s first medal at the 2006 Turin games, she managed to grab Silver in the suicide skeleton bob, surpassing Alex Coomber’s Bronze in the same event in Salt Lake City 4 years ago, what is even more impresive is that Rudman had not recieved enough funding to go to the […]

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February 16th, 2006

Canadian Slider wins Bronze in Women’s Skeleton

Canadian slider Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards won the bronze medal in the women’s skeleton Thursday …. [ more ] ….

Final Results
1 - SUI - Maya Pedersen
2 - GBR - Shelley Rudman
3 - CAN - Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards
Results of other Canadians
10 - CAN - Lindsay Alcock
Tags: Skeleton

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February 13th, 2006

Canada’s Olympic Medal Quest

brem writes / asks Is 25 Medals Goal For Canada Realistic? and has a dPoll going. Well, at first I immediately went there and clicked YES (naturally - Go Canada Go!) .. but then I got to thinking ..
25 Medals for Canada? Where are we going to get 25 medals?
I should say that […]

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February 11th, 2006

Zach Lund Suspended For One Year For Trying to Regrow Hair

Zach Lund had high hopes of walking into the Olympic opening ceremony with his teammates, spending another week in the athletes’ village and then bringing a medal home to his family.
Lund, the top slider on the U.S. skeleton team, was banned from the Torino Olympics on Friday for taking a common hair-restoration pill with […]

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February 10th, 2006

Top U.S. slider Lund banned from Torino

NBC is reporting that the top U.S. slider (skeleton) has been disqualified from the Olympics, after testing positive for steroids.
The steroid? He was taking chemicals to help him grow his hair back…

The Court of Arbitration for Sport decided Friday that the American team’s top slider should serve a one-year suspension because he ingested a […]

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