Here’s how things went today at the World Hockey Championships.
Switzerland 2, Latvia 1
Canada 3, Germany 2
Sweden 7, Italy 1
Slovakia 3, Norway 0
The United States, which is playing in Group B, plays Belarus today and the Czech Republic on Tuesday
The Vancouver Organizing Committee presented an update on the 2010 Winter Games to the IOC this morning in China.
Read VANOC’s official statement below:
Olympic snowboarder Chris Klug, who had a liver transplant in 2000, is working to encourage more people to be organ donors. Klug won bronze in 2002 and recently released a documentary on his journey called “Ride of Your Life.”
“The film shows what’s possible after transplants,” Klug said in statement released by U.S. Snowboarding. “It is possible to bounce back and live out your dreams. The film tells that story by intertwining my life on the World Cup tour last season with the stories of two women from Denver as they go through the entire transplant process.”
One of the best women alpine skiers ever is calling it quits at the age of 25 despite seemingly having many good years in front of her.
Janica Kostel of Croatia is retiring because of persistent injuries. She has had 10 knee surgeries and dysfunctional thyroid.
Here’s a link to a Reuters story.
Read more about Kostel at her personal website.
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The U.S. Ski and Snowboard teams are celebrating solid seasons today.
Here are some of the achievements they are highlighting in a recent press release:
From Whistler Blackcomb:
If you’re a regular reader of the News Tribune’s Adventure section, you’ve known this was coming for about two years, but Whistler Blackcomb finally made the announcement today.
The alpine host of the 2010 Olympics will link Blackcomb and Whistler’s mid-mountain lodges with a gondola.
The gondola will travel 2.7 miles in 11 minutes when it opens in December 2008. Construction starts next month.
The gondola ride will include the world’s longest unsupported free span with 1.9 miles between the two towers that are farthest apart. It will also be the highest lift in the world at 1,361 feet above the valley floor.
Check out the artist rendering from the resort:
Click below the read the press release the resort sent out a few minutes ago.
Bode Miller told the Associated Press today he won’t race in the 2010 Olympics - or any other Olympics for that matter.
It would seem like he’s just blowing smoke, but if anybody could pull a stunt like that and not surprise anybody it would be Miller.
Miller is still upset about the 2006 games in Torino where he was unwillingly made the face of Teams USA and had unrealistic expectations on him.
So what do you think about Miller’s announcement. Is he:
A) Being selfish and unpatriotic?
B) Just running his mouth.
From Vancouver2010.com:
They probably won’t ever be worth anything, but if you are one of those card or coin collectors who collects everything you might want to swing by a Petro-Canada station the next time you are in Canada.
The Royal Canadian Mint has released 17 styles of olympic-themed Canadian quarters to celebrate the 2010 games. There is a coin and card for every sport.
While the coins are already in circulation, Petro-Canada announced this week it will sell illustrated cards with collectors versions of the quarters.
The cards and coin sell for $7.95 (CAD)