Articles from February 2010
Feb 18, 2010
- By Topher Sabot - Jean Phillipe LeGuellec (CAN) is making the most of Canada’s first home Olympics in 22 years. With his 13th place finish today, he has now finished 6th, 11th and 13th on winter sports biggest stage. The US struggled today, led by Tim Burke's 45th.
Feb 18, 2010
- By Topher Sabot - As the second starter in the women's individual 15km, Tora Berger (NOR) had a long wait to see if her 1st place time would hold up, and when her last competitor crossed the l...
Feb 18, 2010
- By Nathaniel Herz - Lanny Barnes is known as a good shot. But coming into the Olympics, she said she had never shot perfectly in a race with four shooting stages over her entire ten-year interna...
Feb 18, 2010
- By Dylan Dethier - The CCSA named its men’s and women’s first and second all-conference teams Wednesday. The All-CCSA teams recognize season-long achievement and were based on points given ...
Feb 18, 2010
- By Nathaniel Herz - For some people, being stuck in a quarterfinal heat at the Olympics with Emil Joensson (SWE) would be intimidating. Not for Simi Hamilton. “Those days are over,” he said.
Feb 18, 2010
- By Topher Sabot - Kikkan Randall (USA) already has made history countless times in her storied ski-career. On Wednesday, at Whistler Olympic Park, she did it again. Randall posted the best...
Feb 18, 2010
- By Topher Sabot - Stefan Kuhn and Devon Kershaw both qualified for the heats in Wednesday's classic sprint. Neither was bale to advance out of the quarterfinals, but still ended up with good...
Feb 17, 2010
- By Topher Sabot - Russia took the top two spots in the men's classic sprint, overcoming a tough Norwegian triumvirate in the final. Nikita Kriukov won gold, inches ahead of teammate Alexande...
Feb 17, 2010
- By Nathaniel Herz - After a horrifying crash in her warm-up for the women’s classic sprint, Slovenia’s Petra Majdic was in so much pain that she could barely breath. But somehow, she still f...
Feb 17, 2010
- Wax Sales and Professional Race Wax Service in Cable Feb 24-27. BNS will be at the American Birkebeiner Feb 24-27th with a full service team providing wax sales and brand-ne...
Feb 17, 2010
- By Nathaniel Herz - You had to feel for them. After four years of build-up, the top American sprinters here had a disastrous morning in the sprint qualifer, with Andy Newell crashing in an icy c...
Feb 17, 2010
- By Topher Sabot - Marit Bjoergen (NOR) and Aino-Kaisa Saarinen (FIN) skied away form the competition in the women's classic sprint qualifier. Kikkan Randall (USA) qualified in an excellent 1...
Feb 17, 2010
- By Topher Sabot - The weather is good, the track is hard, and we are just 15 minutes away from the qualification at Whistler Olmypic Park. The US and Canada look for medals, while the usual ...
Feb 17, 2010
- The changeable weather stayed constant yesterday. Once the weather gods saw off the Men's Downhill yesterday, it snowed half the night until about 10 clock this morning. Flak...
Feb 17, 2010
- By Nathaniel Herz - Kris Freeman performs best when he’s angry, which bodes well for the rest of his Olympic Games. “I’m just really, really pissed,” he said Tuesday about his debacle i...
Feb 16, 2010
- By Aubrey Smith - “This is what middle class master-blasters from all over the world are aspiring to do," says Seth Downs of Anchorage, AK, who won Sunday's 30th annual Sapporo Internationa...
Feb 16, 2010
- By Topher Sabot - After several athletes in the men’s 12.5k biathlon pursuit started early, Swedish coaches were seen yelling at event officials, trying to get them to stop the race. You c...
Feb 16, 2010
- By Nathaniel Herz - Two biathletes won gold medals in biathlon today, each of them with an inspiring performance. But sadly, the focus on Tuesday wasn’t the skiing—it was a pair of serious ...
Feb 16, 2010
- By Nathaniel Herz - Magdalena Neuner (GER) left the door open in the women’s 10k pursuit. But Anastasia Kuzmina (SVK) couldn’t shut it.
Feb 16, 2010
- Yeah, we know we have been carbo loading and our training was planned for us to peak yesterday, but things did not goes as we planned. Here are the ten reasons why - David ...