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2014 Winter Olympics Preview: Freestyle Skiing

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(SportsNetwork.com) – Canadians who showed up at Cypress Mountain in West Vancouver four years ago to watch Alexandre Bilodeau drop into his moguls run with a techo song blasting over the speakers were hoping for better luck. On the same […]

2014 Winter Olympics Preview: Snowboarding

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(SportsNetwork.com) – In the past 16 years, snowboarding has grown from a niche Olympic sport into a Winter Games powerhouse featuring five events for men and women. Shaun White is the sport’s Greatest of All-Time — the Wayne Gretzky of […]

Terrorism always a threat at ‘modern’ Olympics

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(SportsNetwork.com) – Many Olympians spend their amateur careers looking over their shoulders for the next athlete who could threaten them in their respective sport. Of course, that’s basically nothing more than a mental state of fear. The Sochi Winter Olympics […]

United States to send 230 athletes to Sochi

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Colorado Springs, CO (SportsNetwork.com) – The United States announced its full roster for the upcoming Winter Olympics and will send 230 athletes to Sochi. The team is comprised of 105 women and 125 men. It is the largest athlete delegation […]

Miller headlines U.S. ski team for Sochi

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Park City, UT (SportsNetwork.com) – Five-time Olympic medalist Bode Miller was among 20 athletes selected to compete for the United States in alpine skiing for the 2014 Sochi Games. Miller, who took top honors in the men’s super combined event […]

Canadian medal hopeful McMorris breaks rib

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Aspen, CO (SportsNetwork.com) – Canadian snowboarder Mark McMorris, the gold medal favorite heading into the Olympics in Sochi next month, broke a rib crashing onto a railing at the Winter X Games Saturday afternoon. “Thank you all for the kind […]

2014 Winter Olympics Preview: Bobsled

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(SportsNetwork.com) – The United States men’s Olympic bobsled team has its hero back for another run at gold. The women’s team, so successful since the sport debuted for women in 2002, will get a push from a pair of Summer […]

2014 Winter Olympics Preview: Snowboarding

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(SportsNetwork.com) – In the past 16 years, snowboarding has grown from a niche Olympic sport into a Winter Games powerhouse featuring five events for men and women. Shaun White is the sport’s Greatest of All-Time — the Wayne Gretzky of […]

Wickenheiser to carry Canada’s flag in Sochi

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Ottawa, ON (SportsNetwork.com) – Canadian women’s hockey legend Hayley Wickenheiser has been selected as the nation’s flag bearer for the opening ceremony of the 2014 Olympics in Sochi. Wickenheiser will participate in the Olympics for a fifth time. She previously […]

USA Basketball selects 28 for national team pool

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Colorado Springs, CO (SportsNetwork.com) – Former Olympic gold medal winners LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony are among the 28 players USA Basketball has selected for its men’s national team pool for 2014-16. The team will compete in the 2014 World […]