U.S. Olympic Snowboarders Look Super
U.S. Olympic Snowboarders Look Super
Early Sunday morning, during the last Olympic qualifying event for the U.S. snowboard team, medal favorite Hannah Teter lounged at the bottom of the half-pipe— the sloping channel where boarders do their tricks— at Mountain Creek Resort in Vernon, N.J.
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U.N.’s Kofi Annan Urges Olympic Truce
LAUSANNE, Switzerland — U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Tuesday urged all groups engaged in armed conflict to respect an “Olympic Truce” during next month’s Turin Games.
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Legend Lemieux finally ends career
PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania — Hall-of-Famer Mario Lemieux retired from ice hockey for the second time on Tuesday, ending a glorious National Hockey League career in which he led Pittsburgh Penguins to two Stanley Cup titles.
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China, Taiwan squabble over Olympic torch
BEIJING, China — China says the Olympic torch relay can pass through Taiwan as part of its “domestic route” to Beijing in 2008, an offer Taiwan has flatly rejected.
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