2010 Olympic Games

AP – U.S. curler Chris Plys will appear on a new reality show and try to win some cash to get his family to the 2010 Olympics, including his ill father.

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US curler goes for cash on reality TV
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AP – Cyclist Davide Rebellin of Italy will be stripped of the silver medal in the road race from the 2008 Beijing Olympics because of doping.

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Italian cyclist loses Olympic silver for doping
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Apolo Anton Ohno showed that he is strong medal contender for Vancouver by earning three medals at the Marquette World Cup event in Michigan and won this week’s USA TODAY Olympic Athlete of the Week award.

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Ohno takes USA TODAY weekly award with three Marquette medals

World champion skater Evan Lysacek is on track for a successful season, but American skier Bode Miller can’t exactly say the same. SI.com’s Brian Cazeneuve has all the details.

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Brian Cazeneuve: World champ Lysacek sitting pretty ahead of Vancouver Games

The Russian figure skater Andrei Lutai was arrested for allegedly stealing a car and driving drunk in Lake Placid, N.Y., where he was competing in a pre-Olympic trial event.

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Russian Figure Skater Arrested in Lake Placid

The Olympic hockey tournament took on even greater meaning and life starting in 1998 when the NHL decided to participate, closing down the league for two and a half weeks to allow most of its players to travel to Nagano for the tournament. If, however, someone in 1998 had ever suggested that the NHL’s top scorer would be ineligible to play in the Olympics, he would have been branded an idiot. Yet, here we are in 2009, and that is exactly the situation we are in. Anze Kopitar leads the league with 32 points in 21 games, but he won’t be going to Vancouver – his native country, Slovenia, didn’t qualify for 2010. Kopitar’s rise to the top of the heap in the NHL, half a world away from Slovenia and seemingly a million miles from Jesenice, his place of birth and a city so far removed from world-class hockey as to be laughable, is something of a hockey miracle. The current IIHF Survey of Players lists Slovenia as having a total of 1,434 hockey players, junior and senior, men and women.

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NHL top scorer not in Vancouver

ÖRNSKÖLDSVIK, Sweden – Peter Forsberg has crashed a few nets in his time, but on Monday, he – together with a lifelong buddy, Markus Näslund – crashed the Modo Hockey web server when it was announced that both of them would return to the team this season. Forsberg played three games early in the season, collecting four points (three goals), before taking a timeout, and to heal from a stress fracture in his foot. Näslund, on the other hand, retired from hockey after last season, and has followed Modo’s struggles this season as a board member of the club. “I will do everything in my power to get back in game shape, and I hope I can contribute to the team’s success, but I’m sure everybody understands that you can’t just jump in and dominate the league,” Näslund says

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Modo’s two musketeers back

CALGARY – Wayne Gretzky remembers this critical period before the Olympics well. He was executive director of Canada’s men’s Olympic hockey teams in both 2002 and 2006. Steve Yzerman, his 2010 successor, and Yzerman’s coaching staff…

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Gretzky watches Olympic hockey selection process from the outside now

Vancouver Airport Authority unveiled major improvements to passenger-handling and airside operations Tuesday as it prepares for unprecedented traffic spurred by the Vancouver 2010 Games.

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Vancouver airport unveils plan to deal with Olympic traffic

2010 Olympics airspace security restrictions have put many of B.C.’s small aircraft operators in a holding pattern and the industry is demanding at least $3 million in compensation.

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Small aircraft operators claim Olympic restrictions will cost $3-million