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Press Clippings: A schedule of events for Monday’s day of competition at the Sochi Olympics, from the BBC. Times are GMT; adjust times for your own location. Check back here for updates and videos. Special Thanks to the BBC for developing this very comprehensive listing. Also-Please note that this schedule does not necessarily reflect the postponements of the …
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The Olympics are in full swing and we’re at the mid-point of the games. We’ve all seen enough know to know the big stories and big players. Through the Olympic Briefing series of Posts, we’ve been able to highlight the key elements of each of the big competition groups in the games, the concept …
Press Clippings: Curling is–surprise–one of the most popular Olympic sports, even though it may not be one of the most widely or instantly understood. The best analogy for curling is shuffleboard. The idea is simple: slide a highly polished stone (known as a “rock”) across a sheet of ice and into a target area. But …
Press Clippings: A great schedule of events for Sunday’s day of competition at the Sochi Olympics, from the BBC. Times are GMT; adjust times for your own location. Check back here for updates and videos. Special Thanks to the BBC for developing this very comprehensive listing.
Press Clippings: Ted Ligety is one of the top U.S. Alpine skiers and one of our best hopes for an Alpine medal in the Sochi Olympics. Ligety was 2006 Olympic Gold Medalist in the combined and four time World Cup giant slalom champion. To give you some perspective of what’s involved in the alpine skiing …
2014 Sochi Olympics Results as of 6 PM CST, 14 February 2014
Press Clippings: As the Olympics get deeper into the heart of the competition schedule, figure skating is going to move to the head of the line. Along with figure skating will come the figure skating commentators, who will toss out a series of terms, nomenclatures, and phrases that are indecipherable to anyone but…..figure skating commentators. …
Press Clippings: The next wave of endorsement queens is headed your way from Sochi. Although the formal name in the United States is the Women’s Figure Skating Competition at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, we in America already know–or will soon know–these competitors as endorsers for everything from breakfast cereal to energy drinks to airlines. Hey, …
The Russians and the U.S. are going into a shootout in their hockey game. Score is tied after overtime at 2-2. Game is on NBC Sports live NOW.
Press Clippings: The Giant Slalom, along with slalom, is considered one of the two technical disciplines of Alpine skiing. The difference between the two is that slalom gates are very closely spaced, requiring extremely quick changes in direction and giant slalom (GS) gates are more widely spaced and taken at a higher speed. Some experts …