From the USA Luge Team:

USA Luge’s final international racing squad, and eventually its 10-member Olympic team, will begin to take shape with a series of race-offs beginning Wednesday, Oct. 21, in Lake Placid, N.Y. The second race-off on the 20-turn, mile-long Mt. Van Hoevenberg course is slated for Friday, Oct. 23.

Following the two races and the first round of cuts, the race-off series will move out to Park City, Utah, where the team will be pared down again following a November 6 race-off. The final cuts will be made on November 15, during a week of

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SPOKANE – Jenny Potter says it’s a mistake to read too much into the 5-2 spanking Canada gave the U.S. women’s hockey team Friday night at the Spokane Arena.

At first glance it would seem the Americans’ loss coupled with their Oct. 5 loss to Canada in Victoria might indicate that the balance of power is shifting north once again.

But Potter, a veteran of all three U.S. Olympic teams, says fans should pay closer attention to the calendar than the scoreboard.

"There is no medal after this game," Potter, 30, said. "Just pride."

Last month

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From the Associated Press:

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — Bree Schaaf only picked up bobsledding three years ago. John Daly had never scored such a big win against elite-level racers. John Napier is merely 22 years old.

They might not be up-and-coming anymore. On Thursday, that trio of U.S. sliders may have finally arrived.

Schaaf won the second of four women’s bobsled national team trials races, Daly finished atop the men’s skeleton standings for the day and Napier might have had the most significant result of his young career as a four-man bobsled driver — each putting

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