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...already established an Olympic record?as the first father and son to compete together in the luge. Father Werner, 48, on a year-long sabbatical from his teaching job at Boise State University, is happy just to be taking part. "We know we don't have a chance to medal," he said after their first training runs. "What we want is four good starts, the rest will fall where it falls...
...Lodwick - and the U.S. media - thought he had a decent chance of winning a medal, particularly considering his two podium finishes on this season's World Cup circuit and his strong showing in Saturday's ski-jump leg of the two-sport event. After breaking his boot during a training jump on Thursday, Lodwick decided he'd still prefer to compete with his familiar footwear. It was a good choice. Even in difficult wind conditions, he leaped into seventh place. Bill Demong, 21, of Vermontville, NY, took eighth...
...with the others following in order of how they placed in the ski-jump; first person to cross the finish line wins. That meant that Lodwick would begin his cross-country ski two minutes and fifteen seconds behind the leader. Lodwick, a strong skier, likened his chances of a medal to that of a football team that is two touchdowns behind in the final quarter...
...head coach Tom Steitz. "Now they are all afraid of USA Nordic combined." After poaching Norway's head coach, Jan-Erik Aalbu, to be the U.S. jumping coach, and injecting some much-needed money into its program, the U.S. is getting results. For 48 years, it won no medals on the Junior World Cup circuit. In the past seven years, it has pulled in five. This World Cup season, the U.S. was the only country to field two individual gold medal winners, Lodwick and Demong. So forget the catchphrase from Nike's much-maligned ad campaign launched after the Atlanta...
They say it's lonely at the top, but U.S. figure skater and gold medal contender Michelle Kwan never knew it would be this lonely. At 10:20 Saturday morning, just 12 hours after marching in the Opening Ceremonies, Kwan was the only skater on the rink at her first official Olympic practice session in Salt Lake City. This being Utah, and these being figure skaters, the empty rink had less to do with Opening Ceremony hangovers and more to do with competitive strategizing - the remaining ladies in her group, Americans Sarah Hughes and Sasha Cohen, have decamped for more...