February 2006
| 2/28/06 |
Detente posted by torinoelle (3 comments) I love this! US Olympic gold medal winners for speedskating, Shani Davis, left,and Cha... |
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| 2/26/06 |
Ciao, Torino posted by torinoelle (1 comments) Thanks for a great games, and great memories! I'm headed home tomorrow. Thanks to everyone wh... |
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| 2/25/06 |
Olympic champion posted by torinoelle (5 comments) Right here is my Olympic highlight... watching Apolo Anton Ohno win the 500m here tonight in Tori... |
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| 2/25/06 |
Tragedy strikes short track skater Kimberly Derrick posted by torinoelle (4 comments) Last night I learned that U.S. short track skater Kimberly Derrick lost her grandfather on th... |
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| 2/25/06 |
SBL alum Jeret 'Speedy' Peterson sent packing from Torino posted by torinoelle (4 comments) Bronze-medal winning aerialist Speedy Peterson was unceremoniously expelled |
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| 2/24/06 |
Three medals for USA and history is made in curling posted by torinoelle (6 comments) With just 2 days to go in the Winter Games, Team USA enjoyed a medal bonanza today along with... |
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| 2/23/06 |
Close encounter with Olympic medals posted by torinoelle (3 comments) The Torino Olympic medals with the holes in the center are really shiny and incredibly beauti... |
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| 2/23/06 |
Silver for Sasha posted by torinoelle (11 comments) |
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| 2/22/06 |
Today in Torino posted by torinoelle (5 comments) Speaking of Chad Hedrick... I was out roaming thecity and buying up all the chocolate supplie... |
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| 2/21/06 |
Rumble in the rink posted by torinoelle (2 comments) Today in Torino was the men's 1,500-meter speedskating event, a heavily anticipated matchup b... |
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| 2/21/06 |
U.S. ice dancers are as good as gold! posted by torinoelle (2 comments) It wasawesome to see Tanith Belbin and Ben Agosto skate their |
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| 2/20/06 |
Visit to the Olympic Village posted by torinoelle (4 comments) Today I decided to walk over to check out the Olympic Village, wherethe athletes live in |
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| 2/20/06 |
Bronze for U.S. women's hockey team posted by torinoelle (1 comments) Congratulations to the USA women's hockey team for winning the bronze-medal gametoday over Finlan... |
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| 2/19/06 |
Olympic scandal watch - 'obscene' division posted by torinoelle (1 comments) French alpine skier Pierre-Emmanuel Dalcin has been fined themaximum allowed -- $3 |
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| 2/19/06 |
Olympic scandal watch - Italian police raid athletes' village posted by torinoelle (1 comments) Wow, the police hav |
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| 2/18/06 |
The anonymous gold medalist posted by torinoelle (1 comments) Near midnight - a couple of hours after the men's short track1000-meter event had ended - a forlo... |
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| 2/18/06 |
More dead than alive posted by torinoelle (2 comments) Wow, I've now been in Italy for 16 hours! Touching down at the Torinoairport, seeing the slogal '... |
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| 2/18/06 |
Shani Davis is golden! posted by torinoelle (21 comments) T |
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| 2/17/06 |
Road to Torino hits the road to Torino posted by torinoelle (5 comments) I'm heading for the airport in a couple ofhours for a flight to Paris. From there, I'll fly strai... |
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| 2/17/06 |
Silver for Lindsey posted by torinoelle (16 comments) Today they held thewomen's snowboardcross event and Lindsey Jacobellis,the only Ame |
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| 2/16/06 |
US men shut out of figure skating medals posted by torinoelle (3 comments) With just a couple men left to skate their long program as of thiswriting, the U.S. men have fini... |
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| 2/16/06 |
Olympic scandal watch posted by torinoelle (1 comments) The first athlete to test positive for doping -- a Russian biathlete --has been stripped of her s... |
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| 2/16/06 |
Seth Wescott brings home boardercross gold! posted by torinoelle (3 comments) |
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| 2/15/06 |
USA gets its first bronze medal of the Games posted by torinoelle (1 comments) So far Team USA has earned at least one medal every day of the Games.Wednesday brought another an... |
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| 2/14/06 |
Michael Weiss visits AOL posted by torinoelle (1 comments) I got a little preview of what Torino will be like when I arrived forSports Bloggers Live last ni... |
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| 2/14/06 |
Ligety-split! posted by torinoelle (9 comments) |
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| 2/13/06 |
The true Olympic spirit, part 2 posted by torinoelle (4 comments) |
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| 2/13/06 |
The true Olympic spirit, part 1 posted by torinoelle (1 comments) Joey Cheek donates his winnings to charity |
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| 2/13/06 |
A nice display of Cheek in Torino posted by torinoelle (1 comments) |
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| 2/13/06 |
Enough already about Michelle Kwan! posted by torinoelle (22 comments) Let me say right away - I'm a big fan of Michelle Kwan. Thehardest heart c |
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| 2/13/06 |
Double the treasure, double the fun posted by torinoelle (1 comments) |
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| 2/12/06 |
Another reason to love Shaun White posted by torinoelle (10 comments) |
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| 2/12/06 |
Oh no! Apolo stumbles posted by torinoelle (2 comments) The media is making much of the fact that |
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| 2/12/06 |
Dick Button has a potty mouth posted by torinoelle (29 comments) This probably shouldn't surprise me, |
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| 2/12/06 |
The 'Flying Tomato' comes up golden in halfpipe! posted by torinoelle (5 comments) Second USA gold, and another expected one. After running into difficulty in the qualifying ro... |
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| 2/12/06 |
End of the road for Michelle Kwan posted by torinoelle (17 comments) Probably the biggest |
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| 2/11/06 |
U.S. pairs team makes Olympic history! posted by torinoelle (6 comments) |
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| 2/11/06 |
Stunning upset for American freestyle skier posted by torinoelle (0 comments) Hannah Kearney, the 2005 World Champion in moguls, failed to qualify for the freestyle moguls fin... |
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| 2/11/06 |
One down, four to go! posted by torinoelle (5 comments) FIRST GOLD FOR CHAD HEDRICK AND THE USA! |
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| 2/11/06 |
First two golds awarded posted by torinoelle (2 comments) And they both go to the traditional winter powerhouse of Germany. Michael Greis won gold in the m... |
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| 2/11/06 |
Will Michelle compete? posted by torinoelle (23 comments) In an ominous sign Michelle Kwan is struggling in her earlypractices in Torino. She seems to stil... |
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| 2/11/06 |
Controversy - what would the Olympics be without it? posted by torinoelle (0 comments) AOL is running a poll on Zach Lund, the U.S. skeleton slider we wrote about yesterday who has bee... |
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| 2/11/06 |
Getting this party started! posted by torinoelle (4 comments) So the opening ceremonies are now done... actually they have been forhours but of course NBC drag... |
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| 2/10/06 |
Opening ceremonies posted by torinoelle (0 comments) Much as expected, athletes marched (or sauntered in some cases),dignitaries speechified, athl... |
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| 2/10/06 |
Welcome, Deadspin readers! posted by torinoelle (2 comments) Great to be recognized by the world's top-rated sports blog. |
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| 2/10/06 |
Zach Lund banned from competing posted by torinoelle (5 comments) Now for a REAL scandal: Today American skeleton athlete Zach Lund was |
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| 2/10/06 |
Olympic scandal watch 1.0 posted by torinoelle (0 comments) 1) Eight cross-country skiers, including Americans Kikkan Randall and L |
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| 2/9/06 |
Let the Games begin! posted by torinoelle (1 comments) This is, Olympics fans! Well, almost. The XX Oly |
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| 2/8/06 |
Huge upset: Germany wins pairs figure skating gold! posted by torinoelle (4 comments) Oops, false alarm. Never mind! NBCOlympics.com seems to be encountering some |
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| 2/7/06 |
Reason #389 why I love Olympic athletes posted by torinoelle (0 comments) They keep it real: |
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| 2/7/06 |
'Princessy' Johnny Weir goes slumming in the Olympic Village posted by torinoelle (1 comments) God, I LOVE Johnny Weir! Bode Miller may be getting all theattention - and catching all the heat ... |
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| 2/6/06 |
Oh, now that's what you want to read... posted by torinoelle (2 comments) Evidently U.S. intelligence is expecting something to go boom in Torino. I just saw this headline... |
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| 2/6/06 |
How Bob Costas really feels about hosting the Olympics posted by torinoelle (2 comments) When the opening ceremonies of the Torino Games get underway 4 days from now, veteran NBC Olympic... |
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| 2/6/06 |
'Someday' video featuring Winter Olympians posted by torinoelle (1 comments) If you've been watching NBC at all the past couple weeks, you've probably caught a music video fe... |
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| 2/4/06 |
Skeleton saga continues... posted by torinoelle (1 comments) Looks like it's the end of the road for Tim Nardiello, the embattled U.S. skeleton teach coach. T... |
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| 2/3/06 |
Bode ready to apologize to Lance posted by torinoelle (1 comments) The latest in the saga of Bode Miller: He's prepared to apologize to Lance Armst |
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| 2/2/06 |
Torino medal predictions posted by torinoelle (3 comments) Sports Illustrated's Brian Cazeneuve has come out with predictions for who will bring home the ha... |
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| 2/1/06 |
The U.S. Olympic team is set for Torino! posted by torinoelle (2 comments) The U.S. Olympic Committee submitted its final roster of athletes forthe Olympic Games, which get... |