2010 Olympic Games

AP – After capturing Olympic bronze in 1998 and silver in 2002, Mark Grimmette and Brian Martin showed up at the Olympics four years ago ready to complete the medal ascent.

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Grimmette and Martin, still eyeing Olympic gold
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BOSTON – Slovakia coach Jan Filc showed his poker face when he named Miroslav Satan to the Olympic roster, although the forward hasn’t played a single game so far this season. Now Satan’s patience has paid off, as he signed a $700,000 deal for the remainder of the season with the Boston Bruins. Satan won the Stanley Cup for the first time in his 13-year career last year with the Pittsburgh Penguins.

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Satan free agent no more

OBERHOF, Germany (AP) — Hannu Manninen of Finland has earned his second Nordic combined World Cup victory of the season and Johnny Spillane of the U.S. was fourth.

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Manninen wins Nordic combined; Spillane fourth

OBERHOF, Germany (AP) — Petter Northug of Norway edged Maxim Vylegzhanin of Russia by one-tenth of a second to win the 15-kilometer classical cross-country race at the Tour de Ski.

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Norway’s Northug wins 15K race at Tour de Ski

TIMMINS, Ontario (AP) — Country singer Shania Twain carried the Olympic torch in arctic conditions in her childhood hometown on Friday, as the torch relay continued ahead of the 2010 winter Olympics in Vancouver.

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Canadian native Shania Twain carries Oly torch

LONDON (AP) — Heavy snowfall and freezing temperatures have led to the cancellation of several sports matches across Britain.

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Snow, freezing temps wipe out UK sports events

KOENIGSEE, Germany (AP) — Tatjana Huefner secured her 20th career victory on Saturday as Germans filled the top four places in a luge World Cup race and American Erin Hamlin finished fifth.

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Huefner leads German sweep in World Cup luge

AP – The arrival of the Olympic Games is throwing Vancouver off its routine — and no one seems to mind.

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Olympic Games bring changes to Vancouver
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(AP) — Not since NHL players started going to the Olympics 12 years ago has the U.S. team featured so many fresh faces.

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U.S. tabs new-look Olympic hockey team

The international trash talking already has begun. Patrick Kane, the only Blackhawk named Friday to the United States’ 23-man roster for the 2010 Winter Olympics, had the first salvo fired at him from Team Canada’s Duncan Keith on the Hawks’ charter…

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Chicago Blackhawk Patrick Kane selected for U.S. Olympic team