Mar 12, 2010 - 06:00 AM
Vancouver (BC), Canada - For two weeks in February, British Columbia was home to international athletes and sport fans during the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. Now Canada's westernmost province is celebrating once again with the arrival of the Paralympic Winter Games in Vancouver and Whistler.
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Mar 12, 2010 - 01:00 AM
Valmalenco, Italy - The second to last stop of the 2010 LG Snowboard FIS World Cup tour will take this weekend in Italy. As happened in both 2008 and 2009, Valmalenco will once again host decisions in three different disciplines. More than 100 women and 150 men from more than 20 countries are entered in competitions in snowboard cross, parallel giant slalom and halfpipe.
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Mar 11, 2010 - 08:49 PM
Whistler (BC), Canada - Same as it ever was: in what appears to be the 2010 Olympics revisited, the second downhill training run at the 2010 Paralympics Winter Games in Whistler, originally scheduled for today at 11:30 a.m. local time, was canceled due to fog. There will be another training run tomorrow, weather permitting, starting at 11:30 a.m.
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Mar 11, 2010 - 07:00 PM
Park City, UT - Silver medalist Brett Camerota, a member of the team that earned the first-ever U.S. medal in the Olympic Nordic Combined team relay in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada last month, will be at the Utah Olympic Park in Park City on Friday to meet aspiring kid athletes in his own hometown.
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Mar 11, 2010 - 05:00 PM
Snowbird, UT - Utah's Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort will be hosting a winter Stargazer event this Saturday. The evening includes a Tram ride with local astronomers for an informative presentation before unloading on Hidden Peak where participants will view the night sky at 11,000 feet through high-powered telescopes.
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Mar 11, 2010 - 04:00 PM
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany - On Friday, 2006 Olympic champion Ted Ligety, of Park City, Utah, will look to repeat the success he had in 2008 as he aims for the second World Cup giant slalom title of his career during the final GS of the season at World Cup Finals in Germany.
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Mar 11, 2010 - 03:00 PM
Drammen, Norway - Andy Newell, of Shaftsbury, Vt., sprinted to his first World Cup cross country ski racing podium in two years, finishing third in a classic sprint Thursday in front of thousands on the streets of Drammen.
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Mar 11, 2010 - 02:00 PM
Tignes, France - Kaitlyn Farrington has competed in the Winter X Games for the past three years, and Thursday night in the women's Snowboard SuperPipe final, she leaves Winter X Games Europe with her first gold medal. In a field of six women, four of whom were Olympians, Farrington and Australia's Torah Bright went head-to-head for the title.
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Mar 11, 2010 - 01:15 PM
First Published 10:00 a.m. MST Mar. 11, 2010
Updated 1:15 p.m. MST Mar. 11, 2010
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany - Canada's Erik Guay kept his stride Thursday, winning his second straight super G to notch the title, the first World Cup globe for a Canadian since 1982 during the Audi FIS World Cup Finals in Germany. Ted Ligety, of Park City, Utah, led for the U.S., finishing 16th.
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Mar 11, 2010 - 01:00 PM
Tignes, France - Last month, Breckenridge resident Eric Willett took home a silver medal from Snowboard Slopestyle at Winter X Games 14 in Aspen. Today in the men's final at the inaugural Winter X Games Europe in Tignes, Willett upgraded and will bring gold back to his hometown in Colorado.
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Mar 11, 2010 - 12:00 PM
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany - International Ski Federation (FIS) Council members attending the Audi FIS Ski World Cup Finals 2010 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen have confirmed that American Lindsey Vonn will receive the women's super combined World Cup discipline title after heading the rankings for the 2009-10 season.
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Mar 11, 2010 - 11:00 AM
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany - Germany's Maria Riesch finished third during the giant slalom at the Audi FIS World Cup Finals on Thursday, narrowing the gap in the hunt for the overall title to just 165 points. Germany's Kathrin Hoelzl was able to lock up the women's GS title, finishing second in the race behind Tina Maze of Slovenia. Current World Cup overall leader Lindsey Vonn, of Vail, Colo., crashed off the course in her first run.
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Mar 11, 2010 - 08:00 AM
Park City, UT - The Winter Sports School in Park City saw seven alumni compete at the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, and three of them brought home medals. Steve Holcomb (class of '97) won gold in the four-man bobsled; Julia Mancuso ('00) won two silver medals in alpine ski racing; and Andrew Weibrecht ('03) brought home bronze, also in alpine racing. The college prep school's alumni Olympic medal count is now six, including Ted Ligety's gold medal in Alpine Combined at the 2006 Torino Winter Games, and Mancuso's gold in Giant Slalom also in Torino.
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Mar 11, 2010 - 07:00 AM
From the outdoor gearheads at First Tracks!! Online Media
Salt Lake City, UT - You're spending a few days or more in the backcountry, but you want to keep that cell phone topped off in case of emergency. You don't want to pack in the extra weight of spare camera batteries to capture that special sunset scene or blower powder run, either.
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Mar 10, 2010 - 03:00 PM
Kirkwood, CA - As the wind whistled over the razor-sharp rock spires of the Cirque at California's Kirkwood ski area, skiers readied their gear and nerves for the fifth stop of the Subaru Freeskiing World Tour. This is one of the most respected steep skiing contests in the world and the venue at Kirkwood Mountain Resort has become notorious due to its steep, technical slopes and because it is permanently closed to the public. This past weekend marked the 13th consecutive year of the competition coming to Kirkwood and it was a true spectacle from which Mad River Glen, Vt.'s Dylan Crossman and Janina Kuzma of New Zealand emerged victorious.
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