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High or low: Two views of U.S. medal hopes for 2014 Winter Games
The United States racked up a record 37 medals, including nine gold, at the 2010 Winter Olympics. With the pre-Olympic World Cup and world championship winter sports season over for U.S. athletes, it’s a good time to look at the U.S. chances for...
Tags: Swimming, Evan Lysacek, Lindsey Vonn, Kelly Clark, Nordic Skiing
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Another world medal for Shani Davis
Chicago's Shani Davis earned his 11th individual career medal at the World Single Distance Speedskating Championships by finishing second in the 1,500 meters Thursday on the 2014 Olympic oval in Sochi, Russia. Davis's time of 1 minute, 46.83 seconds was...
Tags: Speed Skating, Sports, Awards and Prizes
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2014 Winter Games
They installed the first outdoor Olympic rings Wednesday in Sochi, Russia, a 60-by-30-foot reminder that Thursday marks a year to go before the opening of the 2014 Winter Games. The temperature was 61. That incongruity brings up the first of a baker's...
Tags: Bobsleigh, FIFA World Cup, Pairs Skating, NBCUniversal, Alpine Slalom Skiing
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Long track talent pool drying up?
Speedskating is split into two sports. One, long track, is against the clock. Each "race" has two athletes, with overall results determined by finishing time. The other, short track, is a race to the finish, like running events in track and field....Tags: FIFA World Cup, Track and Field, Short-track Speed Skating, Sports, Speed Skating
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First World Cup win for Glenview skater Hansen
It has been a season of firsts for Brian Hansen of Glenview. Saturday, the long track speedskater had the first World Cup win of his career, taking the 1,000-meter race in Erfurt, Germany. In November, the 22-year-old had won his first Cup...
Tags: FIFA World Cup, Telecommunication Service
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Kuck, Lehman 1-2 in speedskate all-around
Jonathan Kuck of Champaign and Emery Lehman of Oak Park finished 1-2 in the all-around scoring as the U.S. Long Track Speedskating Championships ended Monday in Kearns, Utah. After winning Monday's 10,000 meters, 2010 Olympian Kuck finished with 151.723...
Tags: FIFA World Cup, Sports, Speed Skating
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Hansen upsets Davis in speedskate nationals
Long track speedskater Brian Hansen of Glenview scored an upset win over two-time Olympic champion Shani Davis to take the U.S. title in the 1,500 meters Sunday in Kearns, Utah. Hansen clocked 1 minute, 44.96 seconds to 1:46.65 for Davis, of Chicago,...Tags: Sports, Speed Skating, Awards and Prizes
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Shani Davis on top again at 1,000
Clearly recovered from the groin injury that knocked him out of the season-opening lomg track speedskating World Cup meet a month ago, Shani Davis won his first 1,000-meter race of this season in Saturday's World Cup in Harbin, China. The 30-year-old...
Tags: Groin, Cross Country Skiing, Speed Skating, Sports, Katie Uhlaender
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No surprise if Lysacek skips nationals
It’s about 15 months before the Feb. 7, 2014 opening of the next Winter Olympics. So here are 15 thoughts on winter sports as the full gamut of sports on the program for the Sochi Games get into pre-Olympic-year action this weekend. 1. There is...Tags: Florida Atlantic Owls, Evan Lysacek, Injuries and Wounds, Jeremy Abbott, Skeleton
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Shani Davis has small tear in groin muscle
Two-time Olympic speedskating champion Shani Davis of Chicago has a small tear of an adductor muscle in his right leg, according to his mother. Davis, 30, has withdrawn from the first two days of racing at the opening World Cup meet of the season in...
Tags: FIFA World Cup, Sports, Speed Skating
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Groin injury sidelines Shani Davis
Two-time Olympic champion Shani Davis of Chicago has pulled out of the first speedskating World Cup of the season with a groin injury, according to media reports and tweets from his Dutch coach, Ingrid Paul. Davis likely would have competed in both...
Tags: FIFA World Cup, Groin, Track and Field, Sports, Speed Skating
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Another World Cup win for Gehring
After winning her first World Cup short track speedskating race in November, 2010, it took Glenview's Lana Gehring more than 15 months to get the second.
But only 24 hours for number three.
Gehring added a gold in Sunday's 1,000 meters at the World...Tags: FIFA World Cup
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