2010 Olympic Games

The race announcer bellowed, perhaps in disbelief, as Sara Renner rounded the final corner.

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Renner stuns field, captures World Cup bronze

VANCOUVER – Olympic officials announced Saturday they have cut two days of training for halfpipe snowboarders in a last-minute effort to conserve snow at Cypress Mountain.

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Cypress training days cut to preserve snow

Germany’s Amelie Kober and Andreas Prommegger of Austria collected parallel giant slalom victories on Saturday in Sudelfeld, Germany, in the final tune-up before the Vancouver Olympics.

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Kober, Prommegger win final parallel GS tuneups

Olympic Solidarity for Vancouver hopefuls Japanese freestyle skier Miki Ito, 22, a fourth-year student at Chukyo University in Aichi Prefecture, will compete in the Vancouver Games. Four years ago in Turin she placed 20th, and in March 2009 she won the silver medal at the 2009 FIS World Freestyle Championships on her home soil in Fukushima. Miki believes that, with the help of an Olympic Solidarity scholarship, she is in with a shout of winning the gold medal. It is thanks to Ito’s parents, both keen skiers, that she took up moguls skiing. Go where the snow is “I started freestyle skiing when I was nine years old,” says Miki and adds: “My parents are both physical education teachers and really like skiing.

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Miki free to go for gold

Olympic officials announced Saturday they would scale back training time for athletes at one of the mountain venues for the 2010 Winter Games in order to save snow.

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Training on Cypress cut to save snow for Olympics

AP – Winter Olympics officials will eliminate two days of halfpipe training as they continue to add snow to Cypress Mountain, site of the freestyle and snowboarding events.

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Officials eliminate 2 days of halfpipe training
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AP – Not by choice did U.S. Olympic skier Kaylin Richardson politely decline dinners out with teammates.

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Like many nowadays, skiers work to make ends meet
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More than 20 years ago, the International Olympic Committee set out to generate long-term, lasting support for the Olympic Movement, the Olympic Games and the Olympic athletes. In the early 1980s, the Olympic Movement was in a difficult position. Few countries could afford to host the greatest sporting event in the world, and many National Olympic Committees (NOCs) faced financial hardship in trying to support their nation’s Olympic teams and athletes. The financial support of our broadcast partners around the globe, as well as revenue from the IOC’s global sponsorship programme (known as the TOP Programme ), has largely ensured that such difficulties are a thing of the past

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Making the Olympic Games Possible

Palffy to play Olympics, announces retirement and becomes coach

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Never a dull moment

The youngest son of Brian Burke, the general manager of the United States ice hockey team and of the Toronto Maple Leafs, has died in a car crash.

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Son of U.S. Hockey Team’s G.M. Dies