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Yater-Wallace a Freeskiing prodigy?
The youngest medalist ever at the Winter X Games and youngest winner of a Winter Dew Tour final, 16-year-old Torin Yater-Wallace may be the future of freeskiing. Read More
Fastest 1500 runner in the world
The top-ranked 1,500-meter runner in the world in 2011, Morgan Uceny heads into 2012 as a medal favorite at the U.S. Olympic Trials and the Olympic Games too. Read More
Lea Davison is powered up
One of 9 women named to USA Cycling’s 2012 Olympic mountain biking long team, Little Bellas co-founder Lea Davison came back from a hip injury stronger than ever. Read More
Women’s archery is on target
Khatuna Lorig, Miranda Leek, and Jennifer Nichols credit great teamwork for their successful 2011 season. As World Cup silver medalists, they are now aiming for the podium in London. Read More
Sarah Groff is one tough bird
Chelsea Marshall’s family isolated by Irene flooding
Tropical Storm Irene isolated 13 Vermont towns, among them Pittsfield, home to 2010 Olympic skier Chelsea Marshall. Since then, her family has had one tale after another to tell. Read More
Jenn Suhr: Going up again in pole vaulting
Since 2009, Jenn Suhr’s pole vault career has been, ironically, up and down. The reason? Celiac disease. Healthy again, the 2008 Olympic silver medalist is a favorite to medal at the 2011 World Championships this week. Read More
Brendan Hansen: Comeback kid
Four-time Olympic medalist Brendan Hansen quit swimming after the 2008 Olympics, where he won only a relay medal. Now he’s back with one goal: to win gold in 2012. Read More
Finding America’s next Olympic triathletes
Through USA Triathlon’s Collegiate Recruitment Program, 2004 Olympian Barb Lindquist aims to find triathlon’s next U.S. Olympians. Read More
Gevvie Stone: Rowing toward London
After not making the 2008 Olympic team, Genevra “Gevvie” Stone went to medical school. But she did not give up on rowing. Now she is one of America’s top scullers aiming for the London Games. Read More
John Napier: back on track
What’s new in women’s bobsled
Susan Francia and Erin Cafaro: A gold medal pair
Francia and Cafaro were the first U.S. rowers to win double golds at the world championships when the won the women’s eight and the pair in 2009. Meet the pair that aims to defend their title at 2010 Worlds in early November. Read More
A labor intensive Labor Day
For most Americans, Labor Day is about grilling. For Olympians and Olympic hopefuls, it is grueling as many athletes will still be training and practicing. Read More
The Dartmouth Connection
From Jim Shea’s gold medal to Andrew Weibrecht’s bronze, Dartmouth College students and alums have participated in every Olympic Winter Games. Read More
USA 1 Wins Gold
Steve Holcomb and the Night Train team made history when they won gold Saturday. It’s the first time in 62 years that the U.S. has won an Olympic gold medal in bobsled. Read More
Bobsled: Two down; four to go
Steve Holcomb will have to wait six more days for another chance to snap the U.S. bobsled team’s 62-year gold-medal-winning drought. Read More
Making Team USA: Rockne Brubaker and Keauna McLaughlin
Making Team USA is a weekly feature highlighting the journeys of some of the Olympic Winter Games hopefuls. This week is figure skating pairs Rockne Brubaker and Keauna McLaughlin. Read More
Golden Moments: 1972 Winter Games
Barbara Ann Cochran won U.S. alpine skiing’s third gold medal — and first in 20 years at the Sapporo 1972 Winter Olympic Games. Read More
Golden Moments: 1928 & 1932 Winter Games
Speed demon Billy Fiske won bobsled gold twice; Heaton brothers medaled in skeleton and bobsled; and the Stevens brothers won in the new two-man bobsled. Read More
Nordic combined is a heavy medal favorite
Led by world champions Billy Demong, Todd Lodwick, and Johnny Spillane, the U.S. Nordic combined team is favored to win its first Olympic medals. Read More
Kris Freeman's going the distance
Can Kris Freeman win the first Olympic medal in cross-country skiing since Bill Koch took silver in 1976? Read More
Jim Cochran is Mr. Fix It
The World Cup skier is as much a mechanical engineer as he is a slalom ace Read More
‘Crossing Over
Former alpine ski racers Daron Rahlves, Casey Puckett, and Jake Fiala are leading the pack as ski cross makes its Olympic debut in 2010. Read More
Aiming for Gold
As the men's 4x7.5-kilometer biathlon relay started at the 2006 Olympics, few could have guessed what would happen in the first leg of the race. American Jay Hakkinen skated into the stadium in first place. An American? Leading in biathlon? Read More
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One of my favorite parts about interviewing athletes is learning about their lives beyond their chosen sport. Over a decade, I've met a rower who's a trained chef, a cyclist who plays the trombone, and a skier who likes to take apart tractors.
But few - except the rower/chef - can… Read More
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In 1976, mainstream America was introduced to cross-country skiing when Bill Koch won a silver medal in the men's 30-kilometer race at the Innsbruck Winter Olympics. His feat astonished even his fellow Nordic skiers, who were probably some of the only Americans to witness it; no American… Read More
Peggy Shinn Blog - A Look Inside Doubles Luge
On the first day of the 41st Luge World Championships, held at Lake Placid, N.Y., over 1,500 school kids from Northern New York and Vermont came to watch. Each school "adopted" one of the participating nations and was supposed to learn about the people and culture of their… Read More
Peggy Shinn Blog - All in the curling family
Look at the roster at a curling tournament, and you'll notice a lot of the same last names. Birr, Brown, Fenson, George, Pottinger ... On the 20 teams that competed at the Curling 2010 Olympic Team Trials, held last week in Broomfield, Colo., nine… Read More
Olympians talk about new superpipes
Extreme skiing
"Cross-country skiing is hammering wicked hard, pushing your body to the limits, crossing that finish line, collapsing on the ground, and actually getting up and wanting to do it again," says World Cup skier Andy… Read More
Going for Gold on Your SATs
Many Olympic champions have become motivational speakers. Gold-medal-winning swimmers Josh Davis and John Naber and gymnast Read More
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Elana Meyers is in the driver’s seat
U.S. women's 8 is golden again
U.S. women’s rowing is on a roll. In the past decade, the women’s eight has won five gold medals at the World Championships and two Olympic medals (silver in 2004 and gold in 2008).
The eight’s latest world… Read More
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Off and ... sliding!
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i Fit (sort of) at iSport
That seemed easy enough.
… Read MoreLeaner but not meaner, Holcomb is no Grinch
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“Kikkanimal” — on World Cup wins and …
After the grueling Tour-de-France-like “Tour de Ski,” Kikkan Randall admitted she was in a stupor. The Alaskan cross-country skier had never competed in an eight-day race and wasn’t sure what the… Read More
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Vonn's USST speed suit
When Lindsey Vonn took the silver in downhill at the 2011 FIS World Alpine Championships on Sunday, February 12, did you notice her speedsuit?
Most of this season, the Olympic gold medalist is in a Spyder… Read More
A pain in the gut
What the IOC will find in Munich 2018
Today, the IOC Evaluation Committee is in Germany inspecting Munich’s bid to host the 2018 Olympic Winter Games.
What they will find is a region that loves winter sports as much as Texas loves football. Little… Read More
World Cup titles and crystal globes
Bumps in the road
50 years of Olympians support future Olympians
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Thoughts on PyeongChang in 2018
Yesterday, the IOC awarded the 2018 Olympic Winter Games to Pyeongchang in South Korea. In the first round of voting during the IOC’s 123rd session in Durban, South Africa, Pyeongchang received 63 of the 95 votes cast and, in its third try, beat bids from Munich, Germany,… Read More
Lochte - Even the great get tired
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Dana Vollmer grants a Wish
When Dana Vollmer walked onto…
