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      Vonn takes bronze in super-G

      February 20, 2010 /

      Lindsey Vonn has earned the bronze medal in the women’s super-G, finishing behind Tina Maze of Slovenia and Andrea Fischbacher of Austria, respectively.

      From FOXSports.com”

      While many of the pre-race favorites struggled with a sharp right turn midway down, Vonn made it through that section without a problem. But then she lost nearly half a second on the bottom section of the course.

      “Once I got past those difficult sections, I kind of backed off the gas pedal,” Vonn said. “I felt like I just didn’t ski as aggressively as I could have, and I think that’s where I lost the race.”

      Johanna Schnarf of Italy finished fourth and Elisabeth Goergl of Austria fifth. Super-combined winner Maria Riesch of Germany was eighth and Swedish standout Anja Paerson was 11th.

      It’s the first Alpine victory at these games for Austria, which entered the race with only Goergl’s downhill bronze. At the 2006 Turin Games, Austria won 14 medals — four of them gold.

      Fischbacher was reduced to tears after placing fourth in the downhill, finishing only three-hundredths of a second behind Goergl.

      This was the third of Vonn’s five events at the Winter Olympics. She previously won gold in the downhill, but fared poorly in the super-combined after crashing. Here next race is giant slalom on Wednesday.


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      As luck would have it…Ludmila Privivkova

      February 19, 2010 /

      There are many things I hate about the 2010 Winter Olympics. I hate that, even though I live in the same time zone as Vancouver, I don’t have the option of seeing the marquee events live. I hate that, even though I resign myself to watching the preempted coverage, the events can go until midnight. I hate that the live coverage I do get on the USA Network, MSNBC, and CNBC is treated with little care, as commercials are thrown in willy and nilly and events are cut short by other programming. I hate that Brian Williams tells me to look away from the screen because NBC — the network that is counting on us from the West Coast to stick around — is going to show the results from events that happened earlier in the day.

      The Olympics owed me one, and they came through. Because I could, I put on women’s curling on USA this morning. The United States was taking on Russia and I had no idea what was happening on my screen. Now, I expected hulks of women to fill the teams, but this was not the case. Both boasted rather attractive athletes, especially Russia. In my opinion, even though the U.S. took the match, the real winners were the men everywhere who got to witness Russia’s skip, Ludmila Privivkova, handle a stick. (Sorry.)

      Bonus pics after the jump.


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      Olympic organizers baffled by VIP no-shows

      February 16, 2010 /

      According to The Vancouver Sun, blocks of VIP seats for the 2010 Winter Olympics remain unfilled during various competitions.

      With tickets going for a premium and people wanting to attend Games, Vanoc’s ticketing vice-president Caley Denton said there is no reason why there should be empty seats during the 2010 Winter Olympics. But at a number of competitions this weekend there were conspicuous blocks of empty seats, irritating spectators and prompting a few to complain to the media.

      Getting people into as many seats as possible was one of the major promises Vanoc made after the 2006 Turin Games, which suffered from a high degree of absenteeism. Cameras panned over large blocks of empty seats set aside for sponsors and International Olympic Committee guests, leaving the impression the events were poorly attended.

      In the years since, Vanoc has carefully controlled access to that seating, whittling down numbers and telling sponsors and IOC groups that they have to make sure they use the seats allocated for them.

      Wow. Even those with primo seats don’t know when they’re supposed to watch the Olympics.


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      Lindsey Vonn looking good

      February 15, 2010 /

      Athletically speaking, in this case. During her training run on Monday, American downhill skier Lindsey Vonn had the fastest time on the track’s upper section. Vonn is trying to overcome a bruised shin.

      From FOXSports.com:

      The women will ski the bottom section later Monday, following the conclusion of the men’s downhill race — the first Alpine competition at the Vancouver Games. Vonn finished in 1 minute, 30.75 seconds, which was 0.39 seconds faster than teammate Julia Mancuso.

      Vonn bruised her right shin during practice in Austria on Feb. 2. She stayed off skis for more than a week, but tested the injury — with encouraging results — in an unofficial slalom training run Sunday.

      The shin was a little tender Monday morning, but that was to be expected. And it didn’t seem to hurt her skiing.

      “After skiing four runs of pretty good intensity slalom on salted snow, with the conditions the way they are here now, I think even if you had healthy shins, you’d probably have a sore shin today,” said Thomas Vonn, who serves as a coach and adviser to his wife. “She’s happy to be where she’s at, as opposed to where she was a couple of days ago.”

      This should quell any fears that Vonn won’t compete. The United States is currently atop the leader board with eight total medals (two gold, two silver, four bronze) and Vonn’s presence should add to that count.

      The women’s downhill race is scheduled for Wednesday.


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