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...plays its first game on Feb. 12 versus Germany. Canada opens on Feb. 11 against Kazakhstan. It is expected that U.S. and Canada will meet in the gold medal game...
...sure to get a push on NBC’s personality-driven TV coverage. Despite all the individualized hype, Chu says her favorite part of the Olympic experience so far has been playing against Canada in a game that cemented her team’s spot as gold medal favorites. “We’ve played them eight times this year and there’s an intensity that’s kind of an extra drive because of the rivalry,” she says...
...Wilhelm Doppelganger has been ski-jumping all his life. The 27-year old Austrian, the son of a world champion speed skater and an Olympic gold-medal-winning luger, grew up in the ski-resort town of Blaadfrey. At age four he was sent to private school in the Alps and then to the Olympic Training Center in Vienna. By 15 he was traveling the Grand Prix World Circuit...
...high? Friesinger: It has been an unbelievable season. Unbelievable. But there's lots of pressure. Now I try not to go onto the Internet too much or to read newspapers or magazines or even watch TV. There's too much coming up now. Everybody is expecting the gold medal. But I have my own goals. My coach and I both have the same goals. But from the outside, people wish things for me. Of course I wish that, too, but it's still big pressure...
TIME: What are your hopes and expectations for Salt Lake City? Friesinger: To stay healthy and have nice races. Then I'll see. I would never ever say that I am going for this-or-that medal or this-or-that title. You can't do that. It's too much pressure. It's important for me to stay healthy. Then the rest will come. Going into the race, I will have to see how I feel - my body feeling, my mental feeling, how the training before is going. With this, I will see how the race goes. Sometimes, even...