2010 Olympic Games

PITTSBURGH (AP) -Pittsburgh Penguins and Team Canada star Sidney Crosby said he was unhurt and headed to Vancouver for the Olympic tournament despite wincing in pain shortly after he took slap shot in Pittsburgh’s loss to Nashville on Sunday. “I…

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Crosby says he’s OK for Olympics after taking shot

Results from long track speed skating at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Metro Vancouver and Whistler.

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Olympic women’s long track: Feb. 14

The Canadian men’s hockey team has begun assembling for the Olympics as it prepares to go for what it hopes will be glittering gold.

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Canadian men’s hockey team arrives in Vancouver

AP – Pittsburgh Penguins and Team Canada star Sidney Crosby said he was unhurt and headed to Vancouver for the Olympic tournament despite wincing in pain shortly after he took slap shot in Pittsburgh’s loss to Nashville on Sunday.

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Germany proved their dominance in luge by capturing gold and silver on Sunday.

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Germany captures gold, silver in men’s luge

A cross-country skier from Estonia and a Nordic combined athlete from Russia were temporarily barred from competition at the Winter Olympics because tests conducted before the Games showed that their hemoglobin levels were above acceptable limits. A cross-country skier Estonia and a Nordic combined athlete from Russia will be retested.

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Temporary Suspensions for High Hemoglobin Levels

According to a report in Sweden’s Expressen, the Red Wings’ Tomas Holmstrom has had to drop out of the 2010 Olympics because of a left knee injury and will be replaced by Detroit teammate Johan Franzen. Franzen has played only three games since…

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Report: Franzen replaces Holmstrom for Sweden

LONDON (AP) — Dick Francis, the former jockey who rode Devon Loch in the 1956 Grand National when the horse fell near the finish line when well ahead of the field, died Sunday. He was 89.

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Jockey-turned-novelist Dick Francis dead at 89

PITTSBURGH – Four goals and the shootout clincher were scored by players who will participate in the Olympics starting this week. But after the Nashville Predators beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-3 Sunday afternoon, the only Olympian anyon…

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O’Reilly, Erat score in shootout, Crosby survives scare as Predators beat Penguins 4-3

The way Germany’s Natalie Geisenberger sees it, they’ve turned the women’s 2010 Olympic luge event into a kids race.

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New luge starts ‘insulting’ says Germany’s Geisenberger