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Today is the anniversary of the first Winter Olympics that was held in Chamonix, France, in 1924. continue reading...
Longtime Detroit Red Wings star Steve Yzerman, the architect of Canada’s gold medal-winning Olympic hockey team, is the new General Manager of the Tampa Bay Lightning. continue reading...
It was a combination of the Vancouver Olympics, Cheryl Bernard, the “Vancougar” Canadian team captain, and the Norwegians’ now-famous brightly coloured Argyll-patterned trousers that has brought the sport into the public’s attention.
The New York Times has reported on the sport’s surging popularity on Wall Street while the Los Angeles Times reported on the sport’s unusually big draw on West Coast viewers. The Washington Post reported that fans were “drawn far and wide to the sport.” continue reading...
After politely accepting their gold medals, the Canadian Women’s hockey team let the real celebrations begin!
To celebrate their 2-0 win over the USA, the girl emerged from the changing rooms and hit the ice with champagne, beer and cigars. continue reading...
Starting out on a skateboard, and eventually adapting that to snowboarding, Seth Wescott is an American snowboarder. As far as snowboarding is concerned, Wescott is a familiar name. He has competed and medaled multiple times at the X Games, and he won Gold at the 2006 Turin Olympics in the inaugural run of Snowboard Cross. Wescott is even credited with helping to bring that sport into the mainstream. To keep things interesting in training, Wescott is dropped by a helicopter for ‘first descents’ down various mountains. In this video, http://www.WatchMojo.com speaks with Wescott about how he got started snowboarding, and how he trains today.
NYT.com has a map that shows exactly what went wrong in Nodar Kumaritashvili’s Luge Crash:
If Pamela Anderson, duct taped a beaver to a hockey stick, and covered it in pure maple syrup, it still wouldn’t be as Canadian as our beer!!! continue reading...
With a different country acting as host every time they are played, the Olympic Games are an international sporting event that now occurs every two years. With the Summer and Winter Games held in alternating years, the summer sports are by far the more popular. Originally conceived as an event to celebrate amateur athleticism, that idea has since passed. However the original notion of sportsmanship throughout the Olympics has remained, and it is also a time for tradition and rituals to be highlighted. In this video, http://www.WatchMojo.com outlines 10 things you should know about the Olympic Games. continue reading...
Chris Johnson is the sixth NFL player to rush for more than 2,000 yards. continue reading...
Yesterday Steve Yzerman et al. unveiled the roster for Team Canada for the 2010 Olympic Games. One man on the list was Boston Bruins forward Patrice Bergeron. That must be the feel good news of the year, considering the hit that left him with a concussion just a couple of years ago: continue reading...
