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...We’re not deep enough to win a national title, but certainly on the individual side we have top notch athletes who are contenders,” Brand said with confidence. “Valentin, James [Hawrot], Karl for the men, Noam, who won the silver last year, and Caroline each have a shot for a medal...
...movie is a striking downturn in Kevin Smith’s now-questionable tenure as a director, a case-in-point of Bruce Willis buttressing the self-fulfilling prophecy of his declining career, and an example of why Tracy Morgan should stay off the silver screen and on cable for everyone’s sake...
...about a little love for Marit Bjoergen? Who's that, you ask? She's the Norwegian woman who won three golds, a silver and a bronze in cross-country skiing, and epic achievement for a country that obsesses over that sport. Most Americans are a little guilty of viewing the Olympics through a parochial, U.S.-centric lens. So here's to you, Ms. Bjoergen, undisputed queen of the Olympics. And you, Simon Ammann, the Swiss ski jumper who won his third and fourth career Olympic medals, a new ski-jumping Olympic record. And you, figure skater...
...Apolo Ohno now has eight medals, more than any other U.S. Winter Olympian. Bode Miller, the Torino pariah who came out of retirement to give the Olympics one more go, showed that when expectations are lifted, and extracurricular drinking stilted, a supremely gifted skier can pick up a gold, silver and bronze. (See TIME's brief history of Olympic sore losers...
...this American dominance come about? "During my first Olympics, in Nagano in 1998, we felt like a fringe team," says American Nordic combined skier Billy Demong, of the U.S. attitude during those Olympics. Demong won an individual gold in Nordic combined, fellow American Johnny Spillane won two silvers, and the U.S. won another silver in the team event. Thanks to Demong and his mates, we Americans now know Nordic combined is a sport that mixed ski jumping and cross-country skiing, not a menu item at a Scandinavian restaurant. "Now, when we come to these Games, there are so many...