The unexpected American hero of Winter Games–and Hollywood
Ryan Miller made a string of great saves Wednesday for a shutout as the United States beat Switzerland 2-0 in the men’s Olympic hockey tournament.
The 29-year-old Michigan native who plays professionally in Buffalo was well known before his Olympic heroics in one unlikely place: Hollywood.
Miller got a congratulatory Tweet from Alyssa Milano after [...]
A bad fall took X-Games skier’s life at Calif. resort
Current Olympians and others in the ski community are mourning the loss of professional free skier C.R. Johnson, who died in a fall while skiing a steep chute at California’s Squaw Valley.
Johnson, 26, was skiing with a group of friends when he tried to negotiate a “very, very tight, rocky area,” said Jim Rogers, a [...]
Bode Miller’s first Olympic gold medal
Miller won the first gold medal of his Olympics career on Sunday, taking the super-combined with plenty of flair–roaring back from seventh after the downhill with a blazing slalom run.
He woke up on Sunday morning feeling “pretty whipped,” as he put it. His crash a few days earlier, during a downhill training run for [...]
Evan Lysacek claims Olympic gold in figure skating for US
He becomes the first U.S. man to win an Olympic title since Brian Boitano in 1988.
He is tall, angular, often dressed in black, always concerned about having everything about his life in order.
But in the end, the artistic figure skating prowess didn’t win because of his artistry. Evan Lysacek, without a quadruple jump, [...]
The greatest day in U.S. Winter Olympics history
February 17th 2010 should be marked as the greatest day in the Winter Olympics history.
No, there was no Miracle on Ice, and Eric Heiden didn’t win a jillion gold medals, but here is the case: Never before has a U.S. team won six medals in a single day at the Winter Games. No other country [...]
Alpine Gold for Lindsey Vonn
So much for the notion that the greatest women’s alpine skier in the world might be hampered at the
Winter Olympics.
American sweetheart Lindsey Vonn, whose bruised shin was the talk of the alpine venue for the last week, shrugged off the pain as many expected she would and won the women’s downhill on Wednesday with a [...]
Never say never for a gold medal–Lindsey Jacobellis
Four years ago, it wasn’t exactly part of ordinary sports lingo and sounded more like a way to grab a guitar before smashing it onstage.
Or something like that.
Then came Lindsey Jacobellis and her famous miscue on the second-to-last jump in the women’s snowboard cross final at the Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy.
Furlongs ahead of the [...]
A Luger Dies During Practice
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Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili died from injuries suffered in the crash during training when he lost control of his sled near the finish line, German IOC official Thomas Bach confirmed.
He is the third athlete to die in training in Winter Olympic history. No Winter Olympic athletes have died during competition. [...]
Canada to host this year’s Winter Olympics
It’s only the third time that Canada has been lucky enough to host the Olympics and the host cities of Vancouver and Whistler are gearing up for what is promising to be an electrifying games.
The Western Canadian cities are expecting an influx of nearly a million visitors, athletes and journalists from around the world during [...]
