Olympic Briefing: Late Night Headlines

S O C H I 2014 Winter Olympics Hey, Hey, Hey, Goodbye: Finland Blows Out U.S. Men in Hockey. Austria  wins Men’s  Slalom Gold. Ligety DNF(Did Not Finish).  Not So Fast: South Korea Protests Women’s Skating Results.  American-now-Russian Vic Wild wins second Snowboard Gold in Parallel Slalom 

Olympic Briefing: Pushing The Limits

Press Clippings: After the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics end on this Sunday, the world’s winter sports contestants, enthusiasts, coaches, suppliers, and supporters will return home, many to the slopes of their own town, and–in some cases–to a totally different form of skiing: extreme skiing (called “off-piste” in Europe), conducted out of bounds on steep terrain …

Olympic Briefing: Late Night Headlines

Press Clippings from the Olympic News Wire:  21 February 2014 at 10:00PM, CST.  The news you need before tomorrow’s competitions. Mikaela Schiffrin wins Gold in Women’s Slalom; Phenom on top of Podium. Canada Beats U.S. 1-0 in Men’s Hockey; U.S. can’t get past our friends to the North. Not so fast: U.S. fails to win a …

Olympic Briefing: The Last Slalom Runs

Press Clippings: On Saturday, the 22 of February, the last Alpine event of the 2014 Sochi Olympics will take place: the men’s slalom. The women’s slalom is already completed and we have a new prodigy on the top of the podium–Mikaela Schiffrin–and now its time for the men to make their runs. Bode Miller will …

Olympic Briefing: Very Best Medal Count Chart

Press Clippings: At the Media Bunker, we hunker down for financial and other news and data from Bloomberg. We like the site, the editors, the reporters, and the guy who started it all. It’s all good. Over the course of the Olympics, we’ve posted up our own Medal Count graphic, but it’s pretty basic: Country, …

Olympic Briefing: Late Night Headlines

Press Clippings from the Olympic News Wire:  20 February 2014 at 11:00PM, CST.  The news you need before tomorrow’s competitions. Russian skater Sotnikova wins Gold in Women’s Figure Skating. Gracie Gold (US) takes 4th.  Maddie Bowman (U.S.) takes gold in women’s Ski Halfpipe. Canada comes from behind to beat U.S. in Women’s Ice Hockey Thriller . Bonjour, …

Olympic Film Festival: Lindsey Vonn, Slalom Slo-Mo

Press Clippings: Lindsey Vonn is not at the Sochi Winter Olympics, but she is not forgotten, for a variety of reasons. Seeing Lindsey on the air as an expert commentator on skiing is just fine, but seeing Lindsey on the slopes is the best possible view of her. Above, a nice slo-motion film of Lindsey …