After turning 40 in January, two weeks before the start of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Norwegian biathlete Ole Einar Bjørndalen was about to conclude an Olympic career that had spanned two decades. As a 20-year-old in Lillehammer, he finished 36th place in the 20km individual race, 28th in the 10km sprint, and was...
The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia begin on Thursday, February 6th, with preliminary events in snowboarding, skiing, and figure skating. The Opening Ceremony will be February 7th. Coverage here in the United States is once again on NBC.
The run-up to Sochi has been filled with safety and security concerns for...
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Untimely injuries can be the death of legends. So it is for Wang Meng, the Chinese speed skater who won three gold medals in Vancouver and currently holds the world championship in the 500 and 1000. With another gold medal (as well as a silver and bronze) from Torino, Wang was already the most...
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Four years ago, Lee Seung-Hoon of South Korea broke the Dutch stranglehold on Olympic gold in the men's 10,000-meter race at the Vancouver Games. It wasn't an astounding upset, given that Lee had finished behind Sven Kramer in the 5000-meter race earlier in the Olympics at the Richmond Oval. But...
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No athlete in the sport of competitive snowboarding has experienced the longevity of success that Shaun White has enjoyed over the past decade. The gold medalist in the halfpipe in both Torino and Vancouver, the Flying Tomato returns to Sochi looking not only to win a third straight Olympic title...
Who is most likely to win each event at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi? We've broken down it down, event by event, to let you know the athletes to watch for in Russia next month. Here are our picks in each sport, along with links to previews of each discipline:
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The skeleton might just be the original extreme sport. In a bobsled athletes are encapsulated, and in the luge at least any accidents will be absorbed by the legs before the rest of the body. In the skeleton, a person toboggans down the same icy chute... except face-first and on his or her...
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Four years ago, the designers of the course that hosted the sliding events at the Vancouver Olympics strove to create the fastest, most harrowing track in the history of these events. Unfortunately, however, the quest for speed ended in tragedy before the Games could even begin. During a practice...
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The American bobsled team was announced this week. What is notable about the inclusion of telegenic lightning rod Lolo Jones is not the fact that she was selected; when she has competed with the U.S. bobsled team over the past few seasons since she bombed out of the London Summer Games in 2012,...
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Four years ago, there was a furor as the IOC continued to deny female ski jumpers the opportunity to compete for Olympic medals despite the demand. In Sochi the long struggle has finally paid off, as women will finally take to the launch pad and fly for a shot at history.
Unfortunately for...
