2010 Olympic Games

The rash of injuries and crashes in Alpine skiing has hit the Canadian team particularly hard in advance of their home Olympics.

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Safety Concerns Grow as Canada Loses Another Skier

Another Canadian alpine skier has been forced out of the Vancouver Olympics, after Kelly VanderBeek crashed during World Cup training on Thursday. While the 26-year-old who lives in Chilliwack was conscious, her left leg was in a splint as she was carried off the course on a stretcher. She sustained a suspected anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear in her left knee, ending her season and her Olympic hopes.

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‘Heartbreaking’: Chilliwack’s VanderBeek to miss Games after crash

The day after harrumphing at a cheeky marketing ploy by Vancouver’s Lululemon, 2010 Olympic organizers fired the big guns in the PR battle for clothing supremacy.

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Organizers shrug off Lululemon’s ploy with big sales numbers

Molson Canadian Hockey House officials have slashed the entry price to the Olympic hockey pavilion from $500 for an all-you-can-eat-and-drink, all-day pass to $99 for a “Fan Zone” pass that lets you stay for half a day.

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Olympics’ Molson Canadian Hockey House slashes entry price to $99

Another Canadian alpine skier has been forced out of the Vancouver Olympics, after Kelly VanderBeek crashed during World Cup training on Thursday.

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Chilliwack’s Vanderbeek to miss Olympics after crash

PORRENTRUY, Switzerland – Eddy Ferhi is a goaltender in one of the most historic hockey towns in France: Grenoble. The city situated at the foot of the French Alps that hosted the 1968 Olympics will host the Continental Cup Super Final in January. “It’s a classic hockey town in France,” said Ferhi. The 3,500-capacity arena Patinoire Pôle Sud has been sold out for five of six home games this season.

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Ferhi looks forward to 2010

AP – Knowing their Olympic future and quite possibly their sliding career were at stake, longtime USA Luge doubles partners Mark Grimmette and Brian Martin decided Wednesday was the right time to make a slight strategic change.

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Luge: Grimmette-Martin advance to fourth Olympics
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Dan and Dean Caten are loving this moment in the limelight. The twin-brother team behind the fashion label Dsquared2 are on TV and the radio, they created concert costumes for Madonna and Britney Spears, and they’ll be outfitting the headlining…

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Dsquared2’s Caten twins launching into limelight