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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
Olympic Flame Lighting Ceremony for Vancouver 2010 Olympic Torch Relay Thursday, October 22 in Olympia, Greece
The time-honoured Lighting Ceremony for the Olympic Flame will take place in Olympia, site of the first Olympic Games in ancient Greece, on Thursday, October 22 to light the Olympic Flame for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Torch Relay. Read More
Going for the Gold: Ryan Suter
USA Hockey player Ryan Suter follows the ice tracks of his “Miracle on Ice” Olympian father, Bob Suter, and uncle, Gary Suter, by attempting to make the roster for the 2010 Team USA hockey team. Read More
USOC/US Biathlon to Host Teleconference to Begin Winter Sport Teleconference Series
On Monday, October 12, the USOC will host the first teleconference in its series of on-going calls to preview the major winter sport competitions and feature top U.S. Olympic Team hopefuls in their attempts to make the 2010 U.S. Olympic Team. Read More
Going for the Gold: Augusto Perez
Augusto Perez starts everyday the same, a kiss to his wife and "Buenos dias te quiero mucho" he does the same to his five year old twins. But unlike each mundane morning, he can pin point exactly when he began competing in wheelchair curling. Read More
Chris Waddell to cycle Mt. Kilimanjaro: Upwardly mobile
Next week, Chris Waddell will climb Mt. Kilimanjaro face down, plying the hand crank of a lunar rover-like vehicle. The seven-time Paralympian hopes to summit on September 28 – his 41st birthday. Read More
Sport in Communities: The Role of U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Training Sites
With three Olympic Training Centers and ten Olympic/Paralympic Training Sites, elite athletes with dreams of competing in the Olympic and Paralympic Games have world class facilities spread throughout the U.S. enabling them to achieve their goals. Read More
Going for the Gold: Julia Mancuso
Hailing from a town known as Olympic Valley, it only makes sense that Julia Mancuso went on to become a two-time Olympic athlete. The town is in California, and to outsiders, it might seem as if she’d be more suited for surfing and sun than ski slopes. Read More
2010 U.S. Short Track Team Nominated
The 2010 U.S. Olympic Short Track Team nominees were announced and presented last Saturday. Once again, Apolo Anton Ohno and Katherine Reutter earned the overall classification for the event and retained their U.S. Short Track Championships titles. Read More
Sarubbi Aiming for Vancouver
In her mind's eye, Caitlin Sarubbi sees the day at Whistler Mountain next March when she's high-fiving friends and hugging her family, a Paralympic medal hanging around her neck. Read More
Vancouver: Six months out
The cauldron will be lit for the Opening Ceremony at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games in exactly six months from today. In preparation for these Games, we are providing fans a CliffsNotes version of what they might expect to see. Read More
Ted & Shred: Ligety takes care of business
Ted Ligety won a gold medal in alpine skiing's combined discipline at the 2006 Olympics. Then he started Shred, his own goggle company. Ligety will head to Vancouver as a favorite to medal again, and as one of his sport's up-and-coming businessmen. Read More
USOC more than doubles fundraising goal
The U. S. Olympic Committee (USOC) more than doubled the initial fundraising goal of $2 million centered around its new initiative "America Supports Team USA." During the six-week period the USOC raised $4.4 million. Read More
Going for the Gold: Shannon Bahrke
In Vancouver, Bahrke is looking to one-up her 2002 Olympic silver medal and to avenge her 10th-place finish in 2006. Don't be surprised if you see her after the Winter Games with a gold medal around her neck. Read More
Additional Tickets Going on Sale for Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games
CoSport Readies for Phase 2 Sales beginning on May 14, 2009 Read More
Drobnick, Henry named head coaches for 2010 Olympic Winter Games
Phill Drobnick (Duluth, Minn.) and Wally Henry (Beaver Dam, Wis.) have been named head coaches for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Read More
IOC congratulates VANOC on sporting success
With 317 days to go until the Opening Ceremony of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC)'s Coordination Commission has finished its penultimate visit to the next Olympic Host City. Read More
Oh, it’s Fast… Luge Athletes Top 95 MPH in Whistler
WHISTLER, Canada--- Ask any elite level luge athlete to describe the 2010 Olympic luge track, in Whistler, Canada, and the first word often used is “fast.” Read More
Speedskating Olympian Mike Plant Named Chef De Mission
COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. - The U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) announced today that Michael (Mike) P. Plant, the Executive Vice President of Business Read More
Going for the Gold: Spotlight on Erin Hamlin
On February 6, 2009--after barely 88 seconds--Erin Hamlin's luge career slid into full speed as she became the first U.S. woman to ever medal at the Luge World Championships. Read More
IOC invites athletes to take part in the Vancouver Olympic Games in one year’s time
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today officially invited the National Olympic Committees (NOCs) of the world to attend the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver. Read More
Going for the Gold: Spotlight On Keauna McLaughlin & Rockne Brubaker
Sixteen-year-old Keauna McLaughlin and 22-year-old Rockne Brubaker weren't always skating partners. In fact, they competed against each other before they became the skating powerhouse that they are known as today. Read More
Mark Johnson Named Head Coach of 2010 U.S. Olympic Women's Ice Hockey Team
MADISON, Wis. - Mark Johnson (Verona, Wis.) has been named the head coach of the 2010 U.S. Olympic Women's Ice Hockey Team, it was announced today by USA Hockey. 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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