Bet on the 2010 Winter Olympics
Saturday, February 20th, 2010
The biggest event in Canada continues.
The 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games continue in what should be a plethora of fantastic sporting events with the World Cup and the NBA playoffs just around the corner.
But as far as the Winter Olympics are concerned, Germany is leading the gold medal count with three. The Germans also have four silvers and two bronzes to rack up 9 medals.
Gold medal winners for team Germany are Neuner Magdalena, who won in Biathlon, Loch Felix in men’s singles luge and Huefner Tatjana in women’s singles luge.
Following at second spot is the United States of America with 8 total medals, that’s two gold, two silver and four bronze. Kearney Hannah won the gold medal in women’s moguls for freestyle skiing. While Wescott Seth bagged the gold for snowboarding in men’s snowboard cross.
At the third spot is France with seven total medals; 2 golds, 1 silver and 4 bronzes. Jay Vincent and Lamy Chappius Jason got gold medals in biathlon and nordic, respectively.
Rounding the fourth and fifth spots in gold medal count are Canada and South Korea, tallying two and three golds, respectively.
Athletes that gave pride glory for team Canada are Bilodeau Alexnadre, who won in freestyle skiing (men’s moguls) and Ricker Malle in snowboarding (women’s snowboard cross).
For team South Korea, Mo Tae-Bum was the run-away winner in men’s 500m speed skating, likewise with Lee Sang Hwa, who captured gold in women’s 500m in speed skating. Lee Jung –Su added another gold for South Korea in…
2006 Winter Olympics Preview: Figure Skating
Friday, February 10th, 2006
Contested in the signature building of the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics, the Palavela, and coming off a scandal-marred 2002 Games, figure skating should once will again dominate prime-time television screens.
Out of the scandal came a new scoring system that assigns specific values to elements in a skater’s program. It is intended to be less open to manipulation than the old 6.0 system. Some skaters say the system has taken the artistry out of the sport in favor of mathematics. Critics have derided the new system because the judges are anonymous.
But Michelle Kwan, 25, is back for her third Olympics, still vying for her first gold medal. She has competed little in the past two years because of injuries and had to petition her way onto the U.S. team when she said a groin injury kept her from skating in the trials. Sasha Cohen, who has spent much of her career in Kwan’s considerable shadow, is the Americans’ best hope for a medal and has fared well in the new scoring system.
The competition, though, could be dominated by Russians, who have the gold-medal favorites in all four disciplines. Irina Slutskaya, who won last year’s world championships, has earned far and away the best scores in the new system. The only skater to have defeated her recently is 15-year-old Mao Asada of Japan, who is too young to compete in the Olympics.
2006 Winter Olympics Preview: Alphine Skiing
Friday, February 10th, 2006
From Janica versus Anja to the “battle of the bitches,” Olympic rivalries are heating up, and we take you through the best and bitterest Olympic duels to expect when the snow kicks up in 2006 Torino Winter Olympics. Leading off the top fueds is none other than the most heated alpine skiing contest.
Aphine Skiing is not a team event, but the story of the Turin Games could, nonetheless, be whether the Americans can unseat the Austrians in the medal hunt.
The Austrians have long been dominant, but Bode Miller of the United States, the defending overall World Cup champion, will be a contender for a medal in each of the five events. His teammate Daron Rahlves, who has been among the best downhillers this season, will be among the downhill favorites.
Winter Olympics Preview: Men’s Ice Hockey
Thursday, February 9th, 2006
The Canadians enter the Torino tournament not only as the defending champions but also as the undisputed kings of international hockey. This is a deep, gritty, experienced team that will feature no fewer than six team captains on the roster; the team returns 18 players from the World Cup of Hockey and 10 from Salt Lake City.
Meanwhile, the Americans have neither fully embraced a youth movement nor gone completely retro in assembling their roster. Can being somewhere in the middle between yesterday and tomorrow yield a medal? For a team with question marks about its ability to score and even bigger question marks between the pipes, the answer is not likely.
The Russians will be able to ice three lines of potent scorers and should be able to open up games. If the team can come together under a new generation of stars and accept different roles than they play in the NHL, the Russians will be in the hunt for gold. Although the team is filled with offensive talent, this isn’t an All-Star Game. There will be questions about the Russians’ toughness and ability to grind it out against more physical opponents like Finland, Canada and the United States.
2006 Turin Winter Olympics Story Lines
Wednesday, February 8th, 2006
Sixteen days. Four hundred and fifteen hours of broadcast and cable TV coverage. Do the math: You’ll have nearly 26 hours of Olympic sport coming at you from Turin, Italy, each day, as 2,500 athletes from 85 countries go for the gold, the silver, the bronze, and the lucrative endorsement contract.
The 2006 Winter Olympics begin Friday in Turin, Italy. Once again, this international athletic extravaganza – 418 hours of which will be broadcast by NBC – figures to be as much a soap opera as a sporting event. A handful of athletes from the Philadelphia region, despite this area’s apparent inability to sustain a winter, will be at the heart of many story lines:
Can flamboyant Chester County native Johnny Weir, who has won three consecutive national championships, compete with heavily favored Russian Evgeni Plushenko in men’s figure-skating?
Will Kimmie Meissner, the freckled 16-year-old who trains at the University of Delaware and is the newcomer on a U.S. figure-skating team that includes the recuperating Michelle Kwan, follow in the graceful footsteps of U.S. teenagers Tara Lipinski and Sarah Hughes and pull off a gold-medal upset?
Will Flyers superstar Peter Forsberg play for his native Sweden and reaggravate a groin injury that has kept him out of recent NHL action, realizing the worst fear of Flyers owner Ed Snider?
Will Forsberg’s Philadelphia teammate, Antero Niittymaki, perform any better as Finland’s starting goalie than he has recently in the Flyers’ net?
The answers and the drama begin Friday with the opening ceremonies from Turin, where despite the mini-dramas in the United States, there has been little anticipatory hoopla for Italy’s first Winter Olympics in 50 years.
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