Olympics
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Jamaican team “cool” running at Sochi OlympicsFeb 06, 2014 4:55 am - KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — Everything’s cool and running with Jamaica’s bobsled team. They’re back inside the Olympic rings, and back on the track. After their equipment...
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Bode Miller tops opening downhill training sessionFeb 06, 2014 4:55 am - KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — Bode Miller mastered the Olympic course on his very first run Thursday, leading the opening downhill training session. A bronze medalist in th...
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Canadian Parrot takes lead in Olympic debut of slopestyleFeb 06, 2014 4:55 am - KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — And to think, Shaun White chose not to ride down this course. Snowboarders kicked off competition at the Olympics on Thursday by making the s...
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Skaters hope super suits give them golden edgeFeb 06, 2014 4:55 am - SOCHI, Russia — Top speedskaters at the Sochi Olympics are all squeezing into new high-tech suits which will either shave fractions of seconds off their times or sow eno...
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Bode Miller leads downhill training; women delayedFeb 06, 2014 4:00 am - Bode Miller is at his fifth Olympics and already owns a U.S.-record five Alpine medals, so in many ways he certainly already has, as he put it Thursday, "been here and d...
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Highland Park couple to see son skate in SochiFeb 06, 2014 4:00 am - Steve and Marla Brown are excited to watch their figure-skating son Jason compete in the Winter Olympics. But they weren't content to watch the Sochi Games at home. The ...
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Billie Jean King won’t attend Sochi openingFeb 05, 2014 3:51 pm - NEW YORK — Billie Jean King will not attend Friday’s opening ceremony of the Sochi Olympics in Russia because her mother is ill. King, who was selected to help lead the...
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Five eye-raising story lines out of Sochi OlympicsFeb 05, 2014 9:16 am - SOCHI, Russia — The unusual Olympic story isn’t so unusual anymore. Competitors like Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards — the British less-than-high-flyer who became a respectabl...
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Jamaican bobsledders’ equipment lost with luggage en route to SochiFeb 05, 2014 8:03 am - KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — Jamaica’s beloved bobsled team had to raise money just to get to Russia. Now they’ve arrived at the Sochi Games — but without their equipment....
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Shaun White jams wrist, nixes Olympic slopestyleFeb 05, 2014 8:00 am - KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — Shaun White jammed his wrist on one jump and watched the world's best snowboarders join him in tumbling down the supersized, super-scary Olym...