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Lamy Chappuis wins Nordic combined World Cup event
Jason Lamy Chappuis of France won his second straight Nordic combined World Cup event on Saturday, and Johnny Spillane finished fourth to lead three Americans into the top 10. Comment?
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Staudt on Sunday: Many snags remain before Big Ten can add No. 12
... uffalo Sabres and is considered a strong candidate to be the starting goalie for the United States at the Vancouver Olympics in February. The 29-year old Miller, at least, expects to make the team which will be announced New Year's Day. Comment?
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Jimmy Page to headline Show of Peace Concert in Beijing
The London News.Net Sunday 20th December, 2009 London, December 20 : Former Led Zeppelin member Jimmy Page is set to headline the inaugural Show of Peace Concert in Beijing, China in April, it has emerged. Comment?
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Bjoergen, Northug win cross-country WCup sprints
... Vt., is excited to have finishes of sixth and seventh in the season's two classic sprint events (the format at the Olympics in Vancouver), despite having room for progress. "I'm not trying to be at peak fitness right now," Newell said. "Hopefully in ... Comment?
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WICKED whisper: which young, up-and-coming politician, who has found themselves in the news recently, betrayed a keen lack of knowledge on most things relating to Wales or Welsh politics during the hustings for selecting their party's list of candidates for the European elections earlier this year? At a hustings in Swansea, the eager young politico ... Comment?
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Brazilian Cielo breaks 50m freestyle world record
... he set on July 30 in Rome. The 22-year-old Brazilian won the gold medal in the 50 freestyle in last year's Beijing Olympics. Cielo's coach had suggested him wearing a Speedo swimsuit instead of his Unitard Saturday in the last day of meet as the ... Comment?
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The games have begun in beautiful Vancouver, Whistler
Forget skiing. I could barely stand on the steepest part of the Whistler Mountain slope that will host the men's downhill race in the 2010 Winter Olympics. Comment?
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Vancouver abuzz as Winter Games near
VANCOUVER, B.C. At 6 tonight the big blue digital numbers on the 20-foot-tall clock standing in Robson Square will read "54." Fifty-four days to go until the Winter Olympics return to the Pacific time zone for the first time since Squaw Valley, Calif., hosted the 1960 games. Comment?
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Art: Fireworks art, in fleeting and enduring spectacle
... of the Philadelphia Museum of Art on Dec. 11. Like the displays Cai created for the opening of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but on a far smaller scale, the flower was a transient phenomenon - it lasted only one minute. It lives on, however, in a ... Comment?
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Ottawa rolls out red carpet for the Olympic flame
... to stick. So I moved." Juneau, who played with the Senators in 1999-2000, won his Olympic silver medal at the 1992 Olympics in Albertville, France, when a Canadian squad largely made up of unproven young players and aging NHLers lost to the ... Comment?
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Strap on skates for outdoor workout
Want to burn more than 400 calories in an hour, enjoy the Michigan outdoors despite the cold temperatures, and get geeked for the 2010 Winter Olympics? Try ice skating. Comment?
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... yesterday.. "It's exciting," said Gough, who was a wide-eyed 18-year-old when she finished 20th at the Turin Olympics in 2006. Since then, the Calgary-born slider has taken great strides toward breaking onto a podium dominated by the German team. ... Comment?
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Canadian bobsleds pack 1-2 punch
The Canadian bobsled team got together on Saturday night to play secret Santa. It was going to be pretty hard to top the loot they'd already gathered a ' the first 1-2 World Cup finish in Canadian women's bobsled history, and on the powerhouse Germans' sacred home track in Altenberg to boot. Comment?
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... gloom and doom has been blown out of proportion and that the Canadian team will still be strong at the 2010 Winter Olympics. "The world's not going to end," said Osborne-Paradis, who credited the injured Canadian skiers with helping the healthy ... Comment?
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Canucks finish 1-2 in bobsleigh
Canada captured a gold and silver medal at a women's World Cup bobsleigh event yesterday. Comment?
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... attention in .03 seconds, the amount of time he carved off his own world record in the 100 metres at the Beijing Olympics in 2008. In the same Games, Bolt broke the world record in the 200 metres and, with some help, the 4x100 relay, becoming the ... Comment?
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Hockey brothers set their sights on 2012 Olympics
HOCKEY prodigy Ross Stott still watches replays of the goal his big brother scored at the 2004 Olympics. Comment?
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R-JENERATION: Flippin' to the Top
... coming home to finish homework, thinking about college applications, going to sleep and dreaming about being in the Olympics someday. This is how Green Valley High School junior Erica Oswalt has lived for the past 10 years. "It has been my life ... Comment?
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Ski team finally gets chance to cheer
... go-for-it approach wasn't hampered by seeing Canada lose four skiers in the past week as the team heads towards the Olympics. He had compelling proof he won't be cowed, too a ' he'd just pulled off his second World Cup victory of the season on the ... Comment?
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Burke on verge of historic first
Tim Burke, of Paul Smiths, sets his sights on the target in the men's 20km individual Thursday at the World Cup biathlon competition in Pokljuka, Slovenia. Comment?
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