Sweden stun US at Winter Olympics
Sweden stun US at Winter Olympics
In Italy, it’s Friday the 17th that’s considered bad luck — and it certainly was for US gold medal favorites, with the women’s hockey team shockingly upset by Sweden and Lindsey Jacobellis squandering an almost certain win in the new snowboardcross event.
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Golden goals: Canada faces Sweden in final
For once, the U.S. isn’t standing in the way of Canada’s bid for gold in women’s hockey.
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Kostelic second, Paerson fourth after slalom portion
Heavy snow, fierce winds, and race delays. Marlies Schild is the only one who didn’t seem to mind. Now comes the real fun: the downhill portion of the Alpine combined, where two of her toughest rivals — Olympic champion Janica Kostelic and Sweden’s Anja Paerson — excel.
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So far, Games are a nightmare for U.S.
They got a hold of “Miracle” and started watching, over and over, sometimes twice, three times a day. Only, in their dreams, it was Sweden’s women’s hockey team playing the role of the underdog United States and the U.S. playing that of the indomitable, overconfident Soviet Union.
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Jacobellis drew attention to her sport, but couldn’t win the race
Lindsey Jacobellis won over legions of fans and promoters to the new Olympic sport of snowboardcross. What she didn’t do was win the race. She lost it — in astonishing fashion — a jaw-dropping collapse that will go down as one of the most unforgettable moments of the 2006 Winter Games.
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Skeleton season ends without Olympic medal for U.S. trio
It all seemed so easy four years ago. Jim Shea Jr. and Tristan Gale slid to gold at the Salt Lake City Games, Lea Ann Parsley added a silver and no skeleton team seemed more powerful than the Americans.
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U.S. beats Swiss team, finds itself in tie for second
The ice is curling, and the United States men are rolling in the first round of the Olympics. With slower and swingier ice that allowed them to take more chances, the Americans beat Switzerland 7-3 Friday and moved into a second-place tie in the Olympic curling round-robin tournament.
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