Chad Hedrick began his quest to equal Eric Heiden’s record of five gold medals in a Winter Olympics, winning the 5000m Saturday for USA’s first gold medal of the 2006 Winter Olympics. The brash-talking Texan speed skater covered the grueling 12 1/2 laps in 6 minutes, 14.68 seconds, about 17 hours after marching in the [...]
Apolo Anton Ohno to Go Gold swept up on the scene 4 years ago in Salt Lake. Short track was new to everyone and how exciting it was. Apolo won the hearts and excited the world in this rough and tumble Short track speed skating! This year he looks to improve on his gold and [...]
Germany’s Hecht out with knee injury Surovy to replace Nagy for Slovakia Niedermayer out, Bouwmeester in for Canada Elias to replace Prucha on Czech team Forsberg’s Olympic status uncertain Groin injury sidelines Sweden’s Naslund Chelios named U.S. men’s hockey captain Canada’s Jovanovski to miss Olympics [tags]olympics, hockey, news, Canada, Sweden, U.S., Germany[/tags]
There are many reasons these days that the Norwegians and Danish keep the doors closed, afraid what might be behind them. This reason is not a funny one, but maybe more funny than certain cartoons for some (have you been watching the news). The Italians have dedicated more security personnel and other tecnologies to protect the Norwegian and [...]
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The Canadians can taste Gold.  They want it as much as the Steelers and Seahawk fans combined wanted the Superbowl win. George Johnson of ESPN writes: For us Canadians, this is the Super Bowl, the World Series, the World Cup of soccer and Mardi Gras all rolled into a two-week shinnyfest. Oh, they’ve been good [...]