April 12th, 2006
Beating Canada 7-4 last Sunday, 9 April 2006 in Lowell, Massachusetts, David Murdoch took time to celebrate this huge achievement with team-mates and family. He’s the newest World Champion Curling Skip!
Why is it an achievement? Murdoch and his team of Euan Byers, Warwick Smith, Ewan MacDonald and Peter Smith, are only the fourth Scottish team […]
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February 23rd, 2006
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 […]
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February 13th, 2006
Just a day after Shaun White “The Flying Tomato” and Danny Kass took gold and silver in the men’s halfpipe, Hannah Teter and Gretchen Bleiler also went 1-2 with the gold going to Teter, and Bleiler taking the silver.
You can watch it sometime tonight, with coverage kicking off at 8pm Eastern.
Tags: half-pipe, News, olympics_2006, […]
By Squib -- 1 comment
February 13th, 2006
After a promising start with a gold yesterday, Canada had a slow day with a bronze medal. A few athletes underperforming.
In light of this and after 2 days of competition, I would like to know your opinion on Canada’s goal of getting 25 medals in Torino.
In Salt Lake City, Canada got 17 medals, a record […]
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