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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: Luge, Hannah Kearney, Giant Slalom Skiing, Shaun White, 2014 Winter Olympic Games
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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: Awards and Prizes, FIFA World Cup, Short-track Speed Skating, Track and Field, Speed Skating
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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: Awards and Prizes, 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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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: Pairs Skating, Awards and Prizes, National Hockey League, Bobsleigh, Ice Skating
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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: Katie Uhlaender, 2014 Winter Olympic Games, Groin, Cross Country Skiing, Speed Skating
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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, 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: Awards and Prizes, Speed Skating
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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: Luge, Luge Singles, FIFA World Cup, Groin, Alpine Slalom Skiing
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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, 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, Speed Skating
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Urbana's Kuck skates to bronze at world meet
Urbana's Jonathan Kuck won his first medal ever at the World Single Distance Championships by taking third place in Friday's 5,000 meters at Heerenveen, the Netherlands. With a time of 6 minutes, 16.28 seconds, Kuck was behind Dutch skaters Sven Kramer...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Sven Kramer
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