Mar 15, 2010 - 10:42 AM
Whistler (BC), Canada - After a momentous day for the U.S. Team in Saturday's Paralympic biathlon competition, five American athletes took to the tracks Sunday in the men's sitting 15 km and women's sitting 10 km cross country skiing events.
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Mar 15, 2010 - 10:20 AM
Whistler (BC), Canada - Canada came away with two silver medals on Sunday, the opening day of medal competition at the alpine skiing venue of the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games in Whistler. U.S. Adaptive Alpine Team member, Stephani Victor of Park City, Utah, won a silver medal in the women's sit-ski slalom.
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Mar 15, 2010 - 10:11 AM
Whistler (BC), Canada - U.S. Adaptive Cross Country athlete Andy Soule, of Pearland, Texas, made history Saturday, winning the first U.S. medal of the 2010 Paralympic Games and the first-ever medal for the U.S. Paralympic Biathlon team on the opening day of competition. Soule, a retired U.S. Army veteran, combined his shooting skills learned in the Army with his cross country skiing skills learned from the U.S. Adaptive Cross Country Team to win the bronze medal.
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Mar 14, 2010 - 11:00 AM
Franconia, NH - The New England Ski Museum in Franconia on Friday announced that Cal Conniff grant awards totaling $2,500 were made to three organizations at the Hannes Schneider Meister Cup Race, held March 5th Cranmore Mountain Resort in North Conway, N.H. This marks the 10th year that the Ski Museum, with a mission of preserving the history of skiing, has designated a portion of the Hannes Schneider Race proceeds to the grant program.
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Mar 14, 2010 - 09:00 AM
Verbier, Switzerland - Following this weekend's conclusion of the World Cup, the U.S. Ski Team's Julia Mancuso, an Olympic Silver medalist best known for bashing gates, will take on a new challenge: navigating steep cliff bands on the mythical Bec de Rosses at Verbier as a contestant in the 15th annual Nissan Xtreme by Swatch.
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Mar 13, 2010 - 11:00 AM
Snowbird, UT - For the first time in the history of the Subaru Freeskiing World Tour (FWT), Snowbird Ski and Summer Resort will host the final stop of the tour on the Utah ski area's famed Silver Fox and North Baldy venues. An international field of the world's best skiers will descend upon the Wasatch Mountains next week, March 16-21, to battle for overall World Tour points and for the Subaru Freeskiing World Championships title.
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Mar 13, 2010 - 10:00 AM
Los Angeles, CA - After receiving the highest number of votes by the public for his tribute to his mother, Mary, it was announced this week that U.S. Olympic Snowboarder Nick Baumgartner is the the winner of the 2010 O.C. Tanner Inspiration Award. The Iron River, Mich., athlete will have the opportunity to present his mother with a 14k gold commemorative ring that honors Olympic mentors.
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Mar 12, 2010 - 10:00 PM
Whistler (BC), Canada - The last downhill training run at the 2010 Paralympic Winter Games was canceled Friday due to heavy snowfall in Whistler.
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Mar 12, 2010 - 08:00 PM
Tignes, France - Switzerland's Iouri Podladtchikov returned from Winter X Games 14 in Aspen, Colo., with a silver medal, a fourth place finish from the Olympics in Vancouver, and can now add gold to that list from his win Friday in men's Snowboard SuperPipe at Winter X Games Europe. France's Mathieu Crepel, who finished tenth at the Vancouver Olympics, was close behind to land the silver, with Bellefontaine, Ohio's Louie Vito taking third.
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Mar 12, 2010 - 07:00 PM
Hancock, MA - STRIDE Adaptive Sports will hold its Great Race 2010 on Saturday morning at Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort in Hancock. The adaptive ski race starts at 9:00 a.m. in front of the ski and snowboard resort's Crane Lodge.
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Mar 12, 2010 - 05:00 PM
Aspen, CO - Four-time Winter X Games medalist, Jen Hudak, won her first X Games gold last month in her hometown of Aspen, Colo., in Women's Skiing SuperPipe. Competing with a full international field in Tignes on Friday, Hudak led the pack from her first run through her third run at the inaugural Winter X Games Europe. She was unstoppable.
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Mar 12, 2010 - 03:00 PM
Tignes, France - Tom Wallisch, a 22-year-old from Pittsburgh, Penn., made his first Winter X Games appearance in Aspen, Colo., just last month competing in Big Air and Slopestyle, finishing seventh and eighth, respectively. Today in the Skiing Slopestyle final at Winter X Games Europe in Tignes, only one point separated Wallisch from Breckenridge, Colo.'s Bobby Brown. Wallisch went all out and landed himself his first Winter X Games gold.
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Mar 12, 2010 - 02:00 PM
Tignes, France - Jenny Jones went into Friday's Winter X Games Europe Women's Snowboard Slopestyle final in the number one spot after she led the entire field in eliminations on Wednesday. Jones takes home her first Winter X Games Europe gold after taking home gold at Winter X Games in Aspen, Colo., in both 2009 and 2010 – the first woman from Great Britain to earn a Winter X Games medal.
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Mar 12, 2010 - 01:00 PM
Tignes, France - Last month at Winter X Games 14 in Aspen, Colo., Kaya Turski and Keri Herman finished one and two, respectively, in Skiing Slopestyle. In today's Skiing Slopestyle at Winter X Games Europe in Tignes, they repeated their results.
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Mar 12, 2010 - 10:00 AM
Park City, UT - Park City Mountain Resort will host a Shred-a-Thon benefiting the Salt Lake City Chill Program this Saturday. Proceeds from this event will directly benefit the 120 inner-city youth from Salt Lake City that participate in the local non-profit instructional program.
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