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    Morgan Arritola was born in Bend, OR in 1986 and began skiing at 16 for the Sun Valley Sports Education Foundation. Despite her late start, Arritola clinched four JO titles and has been a member of the World Juniors team and U23s for the last 4 years. Arritola credits her coach Rick Kapala from SVS...
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    Kikkan Randall began ski racing in high school as a way to stay in shape for running during the off-season and quickly became one of the top U.S. Junior racers, following in the footsteps of her aunt and 1980 U.S. Olympian, Betsy Haines. As part of the U.S. Ski Team, Kikkan has been a nine-time US ...
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    Harvey, age 21, has only 2 years on the Senior National Team, but an already impressive resume of results. A three time Canadian Junior champion, he won a silver and two bronze at World Junior events.
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    Brent McMurtry, 23, notched his best World Cup result just one week before the Olympic Games with a 19th place finish in the classic sprint in Canmore. After placing a distant 66th the previous day in the 15K freestyle race, McMurtry qualified 25th in the classic sprint and skied through the heats ...
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    A five year member of the Senior National Team, Jones has progressively improved on the WC circuit leading up to this season, placing in the top-30 several times last year. Jones qualified for this year’s Olympic Team with a 6th place finish in the team sprint (along with Sara Renner) at the Libe...
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    Garrott Kuzzy first began ski racing in eighth grade in his hometown of Hayward, Wisconsin. Kuzzy competed in his first World Cup in 2008 in Canmore, clinching ninth in the freestyle sprint.  He will be part of the 2010 Olympic team in Vancouver.
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    Veteran racer Gordon Jewett races in his first Olympics in Vancouver. Back injuries plagued Jewett for much of his early years of senior level racing, but perseverance paid off and Jewett found himself poised to qualify for his first Olympic Games after racing to his first national title in 2009 in...
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    At 22, Brittany Webster is the youngest member of the Canadian team, but brings a wealth of recent international junior racing experience that bodes well for first Olympics in Vancouver. The Toronoto-native netted three top-30 results at the 2009 U23 World Championships in Praz de Lys, including a ...
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    An Olympic gold medal at the skate sprint in Torino was not enough to satisfy Chandra Crawford into complacency. The season following Crawford captured two WC golds and proved to the world that her Olympic medal was no fluke. But in the following summer Crawford experienced multiple injuries and en...
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    Caitlin Compton began her ski career as an alpine skier and switched full time to Nordic her junior year of high school. After winning a race at JOs in 1999 and being named to the Junior World Team in 2000, Compton pursued her studies at Northern Michigan University.
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 - Once the country’s best juniors, a handful of biathletes – including Lowell Bailey, ranked 14th in the 2012 World Cup standings – detoured through college programs before representing the U.S. at World Championships and the Olympics. 3 Comments
Despite the rings, the person inside was unsure where the Olympics took place.
 - During his travels in Eastern Europe, Win Goodbody set out to find the 1984 Olympic cross-country ski venue. What seemed liked a simple task became a three day project that p... 14 Comments
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 - As the 2014 Sochi Olympics draw near, the U.S. Biathlon Association is focusing all of its resources on the national team. President Max Cobb discussed subtle changes in stra... 1 Comment
Brazil's Jaque Mourao shooting at IBU World Championships in Ruhpolding, Germany in March.
 - Jaque Mourão may be a 36-year-old Brazilian mom, but the Quebec-based endurance queen has already made history in mountain biking and cross-country skiing. With help from Sw...
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 - Olympic gold medalist Beckie Scott was the Chef de Mission for team Canada in Innsbruck. In an interview, she talked about the Youth Olympic Games and their role in athlete d...
Canadian Coach Max Thompson congratulates Team Germany's Coach following the Team Jumping event in Seefeld
 - Team Canada surprises the traditional jumping powerhouses to take a historic Bronze in the YOG Team Ski Jumping event in Seefeld.
Heather Mooney cheers on teammate Paddy Caldwell as he leads Russian Alexander Selyaninov--Classic event Gold medalist-- into the stadium on the final lap
 - Sean Doherty, Heather Mooney, Anna Kubek and Paddy Caldwell finish a historic third in Youth Olympic Games XC/Biathlon Mixed Relay. Germany takes Gold, Russia outsprints US f... 2 Comments
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 - History was made in Seefeld Arena as Team USA-- consisting of  Biathletes Anna Kubek and Sean Doherty and Cross-Country skiers Heather Mooney and Patrick Caldwell-- crossed... 1 Comment
Desperate to leave their mark on the Youth Olympic Games, the Norwegians gave it everything tonight in the Freestyle Sprints
 - Norwegians finally leave their mark, taking both top spots in the YOG Freestyle Sprints in Seefeld. Paddy Caldwell skis a brilliant race, bringing home an unexpected 5th plac...
Frenzied fans line the finishing straight for Tuesday's YOG Classic Event
 - While Standard and Poors may have recently downgraded Austria’s credit-worthiness to ‘AA’, no one is questioning Tyrol’s ability to put on world class ski races. Russ... 3 Comments
Chloe Chevalier of France leads Anna Kubek down the first descent
 - Russian Uliana Kaysheva avoids shooting complications to win Gold in the Women's 7.5km Biathlon Pursuit in Seefeld. American Anna Kubek of Duluth led the North Americans with...
Cheng Harden Standing 1
 - Moments after Stuart Harden crossed the finish line in first place, it appeared to be a dream come true for the young Canadian biathlete. However, it wasn’t meant to be. Th...
The Seefeld Biathlon Stadium: Garnished with blue skies and white Alps
 - With a Nordic Combined Individual Gunderson event in the morning followed by the Biathlon Sprint event in the afternoon, Day Three at the Winter Youth Olympic Games was packe...
Youth Olympians prepare for takeoff atop the HS 75 meter hill in Seefeld
 - Japan's Sara Takanashi and Slovenia's Anze Lanisek earn the first Gold Medals of the 2012 Youth Winter Olympic Games during the Individual Ski Jumping competitions in Seefeld...
Innsbruck's downtown boulevard "Maria Theresien Strasse" is alive with Youth Olympic spirit.
 - With athletes from 70 countries watching, the first-ever Youth Olympic Games kicked off with opening ceremonies in Innsbruck, Austria.
 - On Monday, Austria's national anti-doping agency found Christian Hoffmann guilty of doping charges and handed the world champion a six-year ban from cross-country skiing. Som... 7 Comments
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 - The king of biathlon is "hungry for wins." Here, he trash-talks Emil Hegle Svendsen, laughs at the idea of retiring in your 30s, and admits that he should hire someone to do ...
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 - In an exclusive interview, the Czech - who loves emoticons! - talked about training with the Germans, working on his sprint speed, and trying not to think about how long Andr...
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 - The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that the International Olympic Committee could not bar athletes who had completed their doping bans from competing at subsequent Olym...
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 - Swedish biathlete Mattias Nilsson, a two-time Olympian, was diagnosed with a leaky heart valve last week and had no choice but to leave competitive sports at age 29.
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