He didn’t crash coming out of the gate, he didn’t even skate in the wrong lane, but it was still an Olympic-sized blunder for German speedskater Patrick Beckert. Beckert could have competed in Wednesday’s 1,000-meter competition as the fourth alternate when two-time gold medalist Enrico Fabris of Italy withdrew from the race just an hour [...]

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You didn’t think we’d seen the last of the Olympic blunders, did you?  It looks like Sven Kramer will now join the ranks of skier Marion Rolland, who crashed coming out of the gate, in making a monumental Olympic goof.  At least he can blame his coach for it. With a gold medal in the [...]

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If you’ve been watching the Winter Olympics at all, you’ve probably noticed something about USA’s most decorated winter Olympian in history, Apolo Anton Ohno.  He yawns alot. But why does he do it?  Is he so good at these events that he finds them boring?  Does he have some rare form of narcolepsy?  Does he [...]

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More gold for the USA! Shani Davis has won the gold medal for the U.S. in Men’s 1000-meter speedskating.  Davis now becomes the only man in history to win the Olympic 1,000-meter race twice. Mo Tae-bum of South Korea finished in second place, just 0.018 seconds behind Davis’ winning mark of 1:08.94. Chad Hedrick of [...]

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UPDATE: Shani Davis has won a gold medal in the men’s 100-meter. Stephen Colbert is a jerk – at least according to Shani Davis. The speedskater and Olympic gold medal winner called Colbert, a U.S. Speedskating patron, “a jerk” on Thursday. Davis was answering a question asked by the Canadian Press about the Colbert Report‘s [...]

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