Years and years of training went down the drain in about five seconds. French skier Marion Rolland had hopes of winning a medal in the women’s downhill event at the course in Whistler Mountain. Instead, she crashed just five seconds into her run, losing her balance and tumbling over in front of a stunned crowd. [...]

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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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“The Flying Tomato” has struck again! Shaun White put on quite a show on Wednesday night in the men’s halfpipe with his new trick – a spiraling Double McTwist 1260.  White had already won the gold medal and was simply taking a victory lap, one that will go down as possibly the greatest victory lap [...]

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The Opening Ceremonies of the Winter Games went off without a hitch last night, almost. After several moments of silence during the program to pay tribute to Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili, who was killed in a horrific training crash yesterday, the surprise ending hit a glitch. One gigantic piece of the set failed to rise [...]

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K.D. Lang performed last night at the Opening Ceremonies of the Winter Olympics. She brought down the house with her rendition of “Hallelujah”. The song was written by Leonard Cohen back in 1984. The song has been in the news two other times in the past few weeks. It was performed by Justin Timberlake at [...]

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Tragedy struck at the Olympic Games on Friday when a men’s luger from the former Soviet Republic of Georgia died in a training crash. Nodar Kumaritashvili went over the wall of the track and slammed into a steel pole near the finish line at Whistler Sliding Center. Emergency personnel performed CPR on the scene, then [...]

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Excitement is in the air and tonight is the big night. NBC will be broadcasting live coverage of the 2010 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony. On February 12, 2010, the BC Place in Vancouver will go dark and the Olympic flame will be lit. John Furlong has not disclosed what occur during the lighting ceremony, but [...]

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