LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP)—Former women’s world champion Erin Hamlin and three-time Olympian Tony Benshoof are among 14 athletes who will be part of USA Luge’s season-opening training camp starting Friday.
It’ll be the first camp overseen by five-time Olympian Mark Grimmette, who retired from sliding a month after the Vancouver Games and is now USA Luge’s sport program manager.
VANCOUVER ' Heather Moyse is discovering it's not that easy to shift seamlessly from the elite level of one sport to another without hitting some transitional speed bumps along the way.
The gold medallist in the two-women bobsleigh in the February Winter Olympics, the 31-year-old is attempting to restart the promising rugby career she left behind two years ago to chase her dream of gold at the Vancouver Games.
CANMORE, Alta. ' Win an Olympic gold medal as an American, an Australian, an European or an Asian and there's a very good chance you'll be set for life financially.
Yet, it's only a handful of highly decorated and visible Canadian amateur athletes who will be able to cash on their Olympic successes. But the latest group of medallists from the 2010 Vancouver Olympics say that while it still takes a lot of knocking, there are more opportunities now than ever before.
Krasnaya Polyana, Russia - Russian Olympic organizers will make major changes to their preparations for the Sochi 2014 Games as a result of lessons they learned from the Vancouver 2010 Games.
Jeff Lee, The Sun's Olympic Reporter, is in Sochi, Russia this week for the official debriefing of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. That's where John Furlong and others will pass on to the International Olympic Committee and Sochi 2014 organizers the lessons they learned while organizing the Vancouver 2010 Games.
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WASHINGTON (AP)—Two-time Olympic speedskating champion Shani Davis is not ready to commit to competing at the 2014 Sochi Games.
“We’ll see,” the 27-year-old American said Tuesday. “I mean, I’ll continue to skate, and if my heart still carries me over in four years, then I’ll be there.”
Davis and four-man bobsled gold medalist Steven Holcomb spoke to The Associated Press while taking a break from posing for photos and signing autographs during an appearance for the U.S. Olympic Committee at a BP gas station in Southeast Washington. The BP petroleum company became a USOC sponsor during the Vancouver Games.
VANCOUVER ' The International Luge Federation said Monday that no single reason could be pinpointed for the cause of the accident that killed Georgian luge athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili on the opening day of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games.
But in a final report into the accident, it once again said that Kumaritashvili's actions on the track contributed to the catastrophic event in which his sled flew out of control on the last turn at the Whistler Sliding Centre, catapulting him out of the track and into a metal pole.
SOCHI, Russia (AP)—The Russian Cabinet member responsible for preparations for the 2014 Sochi Games has reassured visiting International Olympic Committee officials that the luge and bobsled track will be safe.
Russia is anxious to ease concerns following the death of a Georgian luger on a practice run during the Vancouver Games in February.
Steve Holcomb started listing off all the places he’s been and things he’s done since driving the United States to its first four-man bobsledding gold medal in 62 years.
Midway through the list, he yawned.
Exhaustion is setting in for the king of the Olympic bobsled mountain.
WHISTLER, B.C. ' The death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili and lingering questions about the safety of the Whistler Sliding Centre track are the most haunting legacies of the 2010 Winter Olympics.
They are not the only legacies. And while they threatened to steal the joy from this mountain resort's long-awaited celebration of the 2010 Games, they didn't.
