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Olympic Skier Kills Himself After DUI Bust

US ski team mourns Jeret 'Speedy' Peterson

(Newser) - Olympic silver medalist skier Jeret "Speedy" Peterson shot himself in an isolated canyon near Salt Lake City just days after he was arrested for drunk driving, police say. He apparently left a suicide note. The 29-year-old freestyle skier had long battled alcohol and depression. He was sent home from...

South Korea Gets 2018 Olympics

Pyeongchang wins bid in first round

(Newser) - Pyeongchang, South Korea, won the 2018 Winter Olympics in the first round of voting, the International Olympic Committee announced today. Pyeongchang was up against Munich, Germany, and Annecy, France, but was the favorite and had even been speculated to win in the first round. It was the first time since...

Shame on You, Vancouver

 Shame on You, Vancouver 
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Shame on You, Vancouver

Hockey riots mar a world-class city: Helene Elliott

(Newser) - Vancouver's police chief is blaming "anarchists and criminals" for the violence that erupted last night after the Canucks lost the Stanley Cup, reports the Vancouver Sun . Some numbers from AP : 100 arrests, 150 injuries requiring hospital treatment, 15 burned cars, 9 injured cops, three stabbing victims, and scores...

Russians Cry Foul Over Vote for 2014 Olympic Mascot

Fans of psychedelic blue frog complain

(Newser) - The Russian people have spoken, and their mascots for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi will be: a snow leopard, a polar bear, and a hare. More than a million people cast their votes during a live program on Russia's top broadcaster. Rejected mascots included a dolphin, a robin and...

Sled Dogs Slaughtered in Canada

Company killed up to 100 huskies after tourism slump

(Newser) - Appalled Canadian authorities are investigating the slaughter of up to 100 huskies used to pull tourist sleds. An employee at a British Columbia company says he was ordered to kill scores of healthy dogs when business dropped off after the 2010 Winter Olympics. The killings came to light after he...

Medvedev Blames Bureaucrats for Olympic Flop
 Medvedev Blames 
 Bureaucrats for 
 Olympic Flop 
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Medvedev Blames Bureaucrats for Olympic Flop

President calls for overhaul of Soviet-era sports system

(Newser) - Russia's president on Monday demanded resignations from the "fat cat" sports bureaucrats behind his country's worst-ever Winter Olympic showing. "Unprecedented investments are being made in sports, but money is not everything," he says. Russia must focus on putting athletes, not "sports federations and their executives,"...

US Dominates New Sports, Old Soviet Strongholds
  US Dominates New Sports, 
  Old Soviet Strongholds 
NATE SILVER on medal count

US Dominates New Sports, Old Soviet Strongholds

US, Asia make radical gains over former Soviet Union in classic events

(Newser) - Nate Silver hears the “cynical perspectives” on the US’ record take of 37 medals at the Vancouver Olympics: that newfound dominance is based on the inclusion of “new-fangled sports" like snowboarding and short-track. It’s not particularly valid. If you look only at events contested in the 1988...

37 US Medals Set Record, Canada Scores Most Gold
37 US Medals Set Record, Canada Scores Most Gold
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37 US Medals Set Record, Canada Scores Most Gold

Epic hockey game ends with unprecedented haul for each country

(Newser) - The US and Canada each set Winter Olympic medal records yesterday, after a men’s hockey final that’s already being talked about as one of the greatest games of all time. Canada came away with 14 gold medals, the most any country has ever won in the winter games,...

Olympic Torch Passes to Sochi
 Olympic Torch Passes to Sochi 
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Olympic Torch Passes to Sochi

Canada celebrates Olympics at closing ceremony; Russia up next, in 2014

(Newser) - An Olympics that began with the death of a luger ended tonight with an exuberant celebration of Canada, reflecting a determined comeback by the host country's organizers and athletes. A festive crowd of 60,000 jammed into BC Place Stadium for the closing ceremony, many of them Canadians abuzz over...

Team USA Gains Gold Medal Game
 Team USA Gains 
 Gold Medal Game 
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Team USA Gains Gold Medal Game

Americans will play for elusive medal on anniversary of Squaw Valley triumph

(Newser) - The torment began almost immediately. The shot by Ryan Malone of the US into a wide-open net left Finland goalie Miikka Kiprusoff staring at the ceiling and shaking his head. What happened next in today's semifinal jolted Canada Hockey Place: The Americans scored four times on Kiprusoff in a six-goal...

IOC Probing Boozy Hockey Gold Party
 IOC Probing Boozy 
 Hockey Gold Party 
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IOC Probing Boozy Hockey Gold Party

Victorious Canadian women swigged beer, champagne on ice

(Newser) - Canada's victorious women's hockey team should have left the ice before they cracked open celebratory beers and champagne, said the executive director of the International Olympic Committee. "It is not what we want to see," Gilbert Felli told AP . "I don't think it's a good promotion of...

Tiny Norway Hauls in the Medals, Gets Zero Respect
Tiny Norway Hauls in the Medals, Gets Zero Respect
VANCOUVER OLYMPICS

Tiny Norway Hauls in the Medals, Gets Zero Respect

People assume Norwegians 'born on skis,' have it easy

(Newser) - The country that has won the third-most 2010 Olympic medals so far at 17—and the second highest number of golds—is one you probably haven’t given much thought to. But not only does Norway lay claim to these stats, it also has more Winter Games medals than any...

License to Thrill: Kim Yu-Na Sets Skating Record

South Korean routs strong field in women's short program

(Newser) - No Bond girl ever did it better than Kim Yu-Na: Skating to a medley of 007 themes, the South Korean glided to a world-record 78.50 points in the figure skating short program last night. The biggest favorite for the figure skating gold since Katharina Witt in 1988—and the...

Figure Skater Bears Weight of S. Korea's Expectations

19-year-old is country's highest-paid athlete

(Newser) - In many ways, Kim Yu-na is a victim of her own success. Through hard work, she has risen to become a champion figure skater—a feat made all the more impressive considering her native South Korea has no strong history in the sport. The 19-year-old is the country's highest-paid athlete...

NBC's Rah-Rah Coverage of Team USA Nauseates
NBC's Rah-Rah Coverage of Team USA Nauseates 
OPINION

NBC's Rah-Rah Coverage of Team USA Nauseates

As anchors fawn, foreign athletes described with 'hoary cliches'

(Newser) - Shaun White may be introducing new tricks during these Games, but NBC’s coverage of him, and Team USA in general, remains an unchanged lesson in "network heavy breathing," writes Alessandra Stanley. “Hyped-up commentators” explain the action “often incomprehensibly,” but once the race is over...

Winter Games Logo More Obscure Than a Pile of Rocks
 Winter Games Logo 
 More Obscure Than 
 a Pile of Rocks 
VANCOUVER OLYMPICS

Winter Games Logo More Obscure Than a Pile of Rocks

Inuit stone marker inukshuk now a popular lawn ornament

(Newser) - The answer to the head-scratching surrounding the Vancouver Olympics logo—“It looks like an alien,” says one spectator—is a head-scratching name: inukshuk. It means “something that substitutes for a person” in Inuit, and denotes a traditional marker built to mark camp sites or memorialize tragedy. It’...

Sibling Ice Dancers Tackle the Tango
 Sibling Ice Dancers 
 Tackle the Tango 
VANCOUVER OLYMPICS

Sibling Ice Dancers Tackle the Tango

'On the ice, we don't think of each other as brother and sister'

(Newser) - Skating the Tango Romantica with your brother or sister may sound like a nauseating concept to many people, but four of the 23 ice-dancing teams at the Vancouver Olympics will be doing just that. It takes a believable amount of sizzle between dancers to win a medal and there's ways...

Vonn: Ski Course Is Dangerous
 Vonn: Ski Course Is Dangerous 

Vonn: Ski Course Is Dangerous

US gold medalist criticizes conditions in Vancouver

(Newser) - Lindsey Vonn criticized Olympic authorities for the "dangerous" conditions on Whistler Hill that have led her and other skiers to crash. "They could've done maybe a little bit better job of grooming the hill and making it smoother for the athletes," Vonn said. "It's definitely challenging...

Svindal Edges Out Bode for Super-G Gold

 Svindal Edges 
 Out Bode for 
 Super-G Gold 
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Svindal Edges Out Bode for Super-G Gold

Norwegian denies Miller his 2nd shot at the No. 1 slot

(Newser) - Bode Miller missed yet another shot at gold today, finishing second to Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway in the men's super-G. Svindal won in 1 minute, 30.34 seconds on a tough, icy course. Miller trailed by 0.28 seconds, and the US' Andrew Weibrecht was 0.31 behind Svindal...

Wackiest Men's Figure Skating Outfits

Johnny Weir leads the pack

(Newser) - When it comes to men’s figure-skating, it’s a toss-up: What’s more entertaining, the routines or the outfits? Catherine Strawn votes for the outfits, and chooses the 11 craziest of the Olympics so far—including one that also made it onto a list of hipster-inspired outfits —on...

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