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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
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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Peggy Shinn Blog - Lowell Bailey—gui …
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
Peggy Shinn Blog - John Morton recal …
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
