Last night in Vancouver, Evan Lysacek became the first American man to win the gold medal in Olympic men’s figure skating in 22 years. With a final score of 257.67, he upset Russia’s Evgeni Plushenko, who won the silver, by 1.31 points. Daisuke Takahashi of Japan won the bronze medal on Thursday night. Lysacek skated [...]
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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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Recorded on February 1st, 2010, in the same studio as the original 25 years earlier (Henson Recording Studios, formerly A&M Recording Studios) “We Are The World 25 For Haiti”, in which Quincy Jones and Lionel Richie serve as executive producers and producers, was created in collaboration with executive producers Wyclef Jean, Randy Phillips and Peter [...]
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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Mark Kerrigan, brother of figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, has been charged with assaulting their 70-year-old father, Daniel Kerrigan, who was found dead this past weekend at the family’s home in Massachusetts. Mark Kerrigan, 45, faces arraignment today (Monday) on a charge of assault and battery on a person over 60 that resulted in injuries. The [...]
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Remember that video we posted yesterday of Gillian Cooke‘s spandex pants splitting open as she was beginning her bobsled run in preparation for the Winter Olympics? Well, it’s now officially gone viral. When we posted that video yesterday, it had around 2,500 views on YouTube. It now had over 1,000,000 views since January 19th. After [...]
UPDATE: See how the bobsled split pants video has gone viral here! Whoops! Something went wrong here. I hope they get to the “bottom” of it. Gillian Cooke of the UK Bobsled Team had an extreme wardrobe malfunction on live television. UPDATE: See how the bobsled split pants video has gone viral here! This 27-year-old [...]
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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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