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From the U.S. Freestlye Team:
Michael Morse (Duxbury, MA) and Emiko Torito (Steamboat, CO) each laid down spectacular runs to win gold in the moguls competition of the Sprint U.S. Freestyle Championships at Deer Valley Resort in Park City Saturday.
The Sprint U.S. Freestyle Championships will air Sunday, April 6 on Versus at 3 p.m. ET.
“We had a great day. Everybody put together some really good stuff,” said Moguls Head Coach Scott Rawles. “We have a competitive group and they came out and skied hard. It was awesome.”
From the U.S. Ski Team:
The U.S. Ski Team’s Liz Stephen (East Montpelier, VT) and Leif Zimmermann (Bozeman, MT) skied their way to titles in the pursuit event during the U.S. Cross Country Distance Championships on Friday evening in Fairbanks. The events were held in the late evening twilight in Fairbanks.
The event also served as the finale of the USSA SuperTour. Russian Ivan Babikov took the win, with Zimmermann the top American in fourth to grab his third U.S. Championship gold of the season. Zimmermann was a double winner at the U.S. Cross Country Championships in Houghton, MI in January.
LOCAL ATHLETES
– Cle Elum mogul skier Patrick Deneen was named the FIS rookie of the year and celebrated March 15 by finishing third in a race in Italy.
– Federal Way native Apolo Anton Ohno finished his season with a strong performance at the World Short Track Speed Skating Championships in South Korea. He won gold at 500 meters and overall. He also took the 1,000- meter silver and bronze at 3,000 meters. Ohno has won 18 world championship medals – six of each hue.
– Yakima’s Phil Mahre, a gold medalist in the 1984 Olympics,
From the U.S. Ski Team:
Stacey Cook (Mammoth, CA) captured her second U.S. title in two days winning the downhill at the 2008 Nature Valley U.S. Alpine Championships, while TJ Lanning (Park City, UT) took the men’s downhill for his first U.S. crown. Combined gold went to Jimmy Cochran (Keene, NH) and Lindsey Vonn (Vail, CO).
Cook, who won the super G a day earlier, notched her third national win, all of which have come at Sugarloaf.
“I knew with Lindsey coming out of the gate right behind me, I needed to have a fast start so that was really my focus and then just to relax on the way down,” Cook said. “I put no pressure on myself. I got my title yesterday and today it was just to have fun and let it run. But I brought my game today and it was enough.”
From the U.S. Ski team:
World Cup overall champion Lindsey Vonn (Vail, CO) and reigning U.S. slalom champion Jimmy Cochran (Keene, NH) each laid down the fastest first and second runs to win national slalom titles at the 2008 Nature Valley U.S. Alpine Championships Saturday.
Just watching a rerun of Saturday Night Live from 2002 (hosted by a pre-rehab Britney Spears)and was amused by Jimmy Fallons Olympic Tribute song for the Salt Lake games.
Here are the lyrics:
The 2002 Winter Olympics are next week,
and the theme song for the olympics is “America” by Neil Diamond
Now, no offence to Neil Diamond but thats songs good
it’s only like 20 years old
So I thought I could change the words to some more recent songs
and see if they want to use those instead
You should highlight the events, like downhill skiingI can go down hill
on the icey snow
dressed up in my unitard
where else can I go?
I’m only a man on two skinny red skis
instead of cologne I’m wearing anti freeze
I can’t even tell if I’m winning the race
because snot is frozen on my face
and its not easy to down hill ski
This just in from Doug Haney of the U.S. Ski Team:
High winds have postponed the start of the 2008 U.S. Alpine Championships one more day. Organizers will be meeting later this morning to discuss the new schedule and I’ll send an official announcement along as soon as the schedule is set. The slalom will not be run today.