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Mahres hope US slalom drought ends at Vancouver

AP News yesterday

Before the drought: Quarter-century ago, Mahre twins won Olympic medals in slalom Before he was an Olympian, much less a gold medalist, Ted Ligety was making precision turns and effortless cutbacks in front of an admiring audience. Phil Mahre was watching and ...

Olympic speedskater Pechstein's 2-year ban upheld

AP News yesterday

Olympic speedskater Claudia Pechstein's 2-year doping ban upheld, will miss Vancouver Games Five-time Olympic speedskating champion Claudia Pechstein lost her appeal against a two-year ban for blood doping Wednesday and will miss the Vancouver Games. The Court of Arbitration for Sport in ...

Germany Speedskating Doping Pechstein

AP News yesterday

FILE - In this Feb. 25, 2006 file picture Claudia Pechstein of Germany peeks through the center of the medal after winning the silver during the women's 5,000 meter speedskating at Oval Lingotto during the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy. Five-time ...

India rules out Olympics bid

AFP South Asian Edition yesterday

India will not bid for the Olympics in the near future even if it organises a successful Commonwealth Games next year, sports minister Manohar Singh Gill said on Wednesday. Gill, speaking in parliament during a discussion on the New Delhi Commonwealth Games, ...

Australian swimmer Jones eyes London Games

AFP Global Edition yesterday

Australian swimming champion Leisel Jones said on Wednesday she could continue to train and become the nation's first swimmer to compete at four Olympics. The three-time gold medallist, who this month broke two world shortcourse records in Berlin, has refused to rule ...

Olympic runner-up dance duo out for Prix final

AFP American Edition 2 days ago

Reigning world and Olympic silver medal ice dance duo Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto of the United States said Tuesday they are pulling out of the Grand Prix final next week in Tokyo. The five-time US ice dance champions will not compete ...

49ers' Vernon Davis gets a broom and goes curling

AP News 2 days ago

This curl has nothing to do with weights or pass routes: 49ers' Vernon Davis tries curling Vernon Davis stepped onto the ice and started moonwalking, fully confident he could conquer the sport of curling — or at the least be respectable. He ...

Germans restore 1936 high jump record

AP News 2 days ago

Germany restores 1936 women's high jump record to Jewish winner Gretel Bergmann matched a German high jump record on June 30, 1936. Two weeks later, the 5 feet, 3 inches she jumped in Stuttgart, Germany, was all but obliterated and she was ...

Slight rise in construction cost of London Games

AP News 3 days ago

Slight rise in projected final construction costs for 2012 London Olympics The projected final cost of construction for the 2012 London Olympics has risen slightly, but the overall budget for the games remains unchanged. The anticipated cost went up by $11.5 million ...

Opening of GE Ice Plaza

Getty Images 3 days ago

VANCOUVER, CANADA - NOVEMBER 23: 2010 Olympic Games mascots (L-R) Quatchi, Miga and Sumi look on as members of the public skate during the official opening of the GE Ice Plaza November 23, 2009 in Vancouver, Canada. The GE Ice Plaza will ...

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