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When curling was introduced as a medal sport in the 1998 Olympics, the comments were often condescending and occasionally cruel. Chess on ice, geeks with brooms. Yet the sport proved surprisingly popular. Television viewers loved the game in Britain. In Canada, of course, curling vies with hockey as the national...
Last September Janica Kostelic wondered if she would be skiing well enough to make any impression at the Olympics. After three knee operations in the off-season, the 2001 overall World Cup champion was going to have to fight to be fit. Last week her fears proved unfounded as she...
The "Croatian Sensation" missed the first half of the World Cup season completely, and her results when she did take to the piste were far from her best. But come the Olympics she switched up a gear to the form that last year had won her eight consecutive slalom races...
Skating after an American at an Olympics in the U.S. cannot be the most confidence-boosting experience, especially for a skater from Russia. "Oh, it was so hard to skate after Michelle [Kwan]," said Irina Slutskaya, a favorite in ladies' figure skating. Dodging the love tokens strewn on the ice...
The weather was right - no snow and not much wind - and so freestyle aerial skier Ales Valenta of the Czech Republic decided to try a quintuple twist with a triple back-flip. No one had ever attempted?much less landed?a five twist jump in the Olympics. For Valenta it...