One of the Worlds best biathlon skiers, Ole Einar Bjorndalen has decided not to attempt to race both biathlon and cross country at the 2006 Olympics in Torino, Italy reports Norwegian newspaper VG. Bjorndalen will however race the specialists in the Norwegian season opener in two and a half weeks. Norwegian biathlon national team skiers Ole Einar Bjorndalen, Lars Berger and Frode Andresen has all gotten permission by the biathlon coach to test themselves in...
VANCOUVER 2010: Two new venues get underway 21 June 2005 Work has begun in the Callaghan Valley, near Whistler, on two of the venues for the XXI Olympic Winter Games — Vancouver 2010. The Whistler Nordic Competition Venue, which was started on 16 April 2005, and the Whistler Sliding Centre, which was started this month, will play host to cross-country skiing, ski jumping, biathlon and Nordic combined, and bobsleigh, luge and skeleton, respectively, during the...
Torbjorn, Beckie, and Canadian National Team coach Dave Wood
Vancouver, June 25, 2004 – Canadian Olympic Committee: Hundreds of people came out to the Vancouver, BC Art Gallery on Friday to see Beckie Scott finally receive her gold medal for the 5 + 5-kilometer pursuit at the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City. Members of the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC), Cross Country Canada (CCC), the Canadian sport community including many athletes and Olympians, as well as cheering fans were on-hand to witness...
Note: this article came from:
28 February 2004 Pursuant to the arbitral awards delivered by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on 18 December 2003, the Executive Board (EB) of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) today unanimously decided: – the exclusion of Johann Muehlegg and Olga Danilova from the XIX Olympic Winter Games of Salt Lake City 2002, is confirmed; – both athletes are disqualified from all cross-country skiing competitions in which they participated during at the XIX Olympic Winter Games...
07 January 2004 The International Olympic Committee (IOC) today announced that re-testing of the samples collected during the XIX Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City showed no trace of the anabolic steroid tetrahydrogestrinone (THG), the new designer drug revealed in October last year. Decision of Executive Board The decision to re-test the samples was made by the IOC Executive Board on 4 December based on advice from experts, who confirmed that it was legally and scientifically...
The designer steriod THG has been making a lot of headlines recently. The USA Track and Field controversy has bloomed into a scandal involving professional athletes from the NFL, Major League baseball and many others. But could this issue also reach back and dredge up even more scandal from the 2002 Winter Olympics? According to an Salt Lake Tribune – Urine samples may be retested Are we ready for another round of Olympic scandal? And...
CALGARY, October 21, 2003 — The Canadian Olympic Committee (COC), Cross Country Canada (CCC), members of the Canadian sport community and hundreds of cheering supporters joined together at CODA’s Canada Olympic Park in Calgary today to celebrate cross-country skier Beckie Scott’s upgrade to an Olympic silver medal. “I'm extremely honoured that this special event was organized in Canada for my second Olympic medal ceremony,” said Scott. “This is a tremendous opportunity for all Canadians to...
Calgary — Beckie Scott will turn in her Olympic bronze medal for either a silver or gold one at a special ceremony, free to the public, at Canada Olympic Park on Oct. 21. Scott actually mailed the Bronze Medal back in August, but has not yet received her new medal because the color upgrade is still not yet known. Scott was guaranteed an upgrade of at least one spot in the summer when international ski...
The following is the last in a series of daily event descriptions from the Cross-Country events at the 2002 Olympic Games, celebrating the first anniversary of the Salt Lake City Games. For more information or requests for lectures, presentations of planning and preparation phases, or the “behind the scenes” operations during the Games, contact John Aalberg at kjaalberg@aol.com Feb 23rd 2002 Olympic Games Men’s 50 km Recovering from the first wave of the doping scandal,...
After a resounding success for the Organizer and the sport so far in the Games, unexpected and unwanted problems started to arise — none that the Organizer had any control over. The first one surfaced just before the Women’s 4 x 5 km relay. 15 minutes before the start, John Aalberg, the Chief of Competition, heard over his earpiece radio that there were problems at the blood control station. Two athletes from the Russian Team...
The following is a series of daily event descriptions from the Cross-Country events at the 2002 Olympic Games, celebrating the first anniversary of the Salt Lake City Games. For more information or requests for lectures, presentations of planning and preparation phases, or the “behind the scenes” operations during the Games, contact John Aalberg at kjaalberg@aol.com Feb 19th 2002 Olympic Games Men’s and Women’s Sprint The newest Olympic Cross-Country event, the 1.5 km long Sprint race,...
The following is a series of daily event descriptions from the Cross-Country events at the 2002 Olympic Games, celebrating the first anniversary of the Salt Lake City Games. For more information or requests for lectures, presentations of planning and preparation phases, or the “behind the scenes” operations during the Games, contact John Aalberg at kjaalberg@aol.com The Men’s relay race ended up being the "star of the show" at Soldier Hollow during the Games, as it...
The following is a series of daily event descriptions from the Cross-Country events at the 2002 Olympic Games, celebrating the first anniversary of the Salt Lake City Games. We will look back at each race exactly a year after it took place. For more information or requests for lectures, presentations of planning and preparation phases, or the "behind the scenes" operations during the Games, contact John Aalberg at
The following is a series of daily event descriptions from the Cross-Country events at the 2002 Olympic Games, celebrating the first anniversary of the Salt Lake City Games. For more information or requests for lectures, presentations of planning and preparation phases, or the “behind the scenes” operations during the Games, contact John Aalberg at kjaalberg@aol.com This event would give Canada their first ever Olympic Cross-Country medal. The bronze was awarded to Beckie Scott on this...