Skiing

While the better part of the US Biathlon Team is heading to Europe in the very moment, one week ago the first athletes already landed in Östersund, Sweden to start the final preparation for the upcoming World Cup season. For that first training week head coach Per Nilsson wanted to focus on the most promising athletes that included Tim Burke, Lowell Bailey and Jay Hakkinen. Instead of staying in the warm and rainy Östersund, the three athletes traveled a few hours to find a place that could offer really the best snow and skiing conditions.  

Polish Olympic cross country skier, Justyna Kowalczyk, has begun the season with a World Cup race in Norway, Saturday morning. "This is my most important season because of the Olympics," said Kowalczyk, who won a bronze medal in the 30 km freestyle cross country race at the 2006 Olympics in Turin, Italy as well as the overall 2008-2009 Cross Country Skiing World Cup. The race, a 10 km free style run, wraps up Saturday afternoon. The races kick off the women's World Cup and Olympic cross country ...  

Boardman, 6-foot-4, 205 pounds, senior; DeAndre Richardson, Austintown Fitch, 6-1, 180, sr.; Devin Smith, Massillon Washington, 6-2, 170, jr.; Anthony Schrock, Wadsworth, 6-3, 201, sr. Linemen—Mark Wiley, North Canton Hoover, 5-11, 195, sr.; Ben Buzzelli, Wadsworth, 6-5, 286, sr.; Mike Price, Brunswick, 6-3, 240, sr.; Brandon Bucknell, Twinsburg, 5-10, 275, sr.; Jeff Myers, Massillon Washington, 6-3, 285, sr.; Dakota Makowski, Canton McKinley, 6-0, 228, sr. Quarterbacks—Robert Partridge, Massillon ...  

Barry Fry's men remained three points clear at the top of Division Three despite being held 2-2 by Macclesfield at London Road. An Andy Clarke opener and an Andy Edwards equaliser earned Posh a point in front of 5,083 fans. ICE HOCKEY: Phantoms reclaimed a share of top spot in the British National League by blowing away Milton Keynes Kings during a season's best 11-1 win. iel Granqvist, Claude Dumas and Matt Brush also found the net. LADIES FOOTBALL: Pearl Ladies smashed Posh Reserves 12-6 ...  

The perils of an early season Nordic ski camp in Steamboat Springs came sharply into focus Friday morning for U.S. Adap­tive Nordic ski team coach Greg Rawlings. The team was scheduled to stage a late-morning time trial at the Steamboat Ski Touring Center. A week of careful preparations by the center's staff helped open some trails, but it wasn't enough.  

After crashing during a training run at Copper Mountain on Thursday, U.S. Alpine Ski Team member Resi Stiegler is out for the season, the team announced Friday. She was carted down the hill in a sled before being taken to Steadman-Hawkins Clinic at the Vail Valley Medical Center. The team's medical director Richard Quincy said Stiegler suffered a serious complex injury.

This was a serious injury for Resi, but her spirit is strong   -Richard Quincy

 

The 2.500-ton steel construction stands equipped with two elevators and boasting 5,000 cubic meters of snow: the world's largest ramp in Moscow is ready to stage the second edition of the invitation city parallel slalom, entitled as the Audi FIS Alpine Ski Champions Cup, at 8 p.m. local time on Saturday. "After the very successful glacier opening in Sölden (Austria) and the perfect slalom event north of the Polar Circle in Levi (Finland), it's a very spectacular challenge to organize an Alpine ...  

If there ever was a title that captivated the essence of "milking the cow", it's probably the Nintendo SEGA fusion with Mario and Sonic — two of the most iconic game characters of all times. It's especially bad considering the game itself isn't original, but based on the "Olympics" brand, this time, Winter Olympics. So in essence, you got the same characters in a known environment.  

Somewhere inside Connor Lonning's locker in Mitchell Hall, there's a campus meal card from the mid-1990s. No, Lonning isn't UW-La Crosse's oldest senior. He was just the school's youngest unofficial freshman.

He's pretty much been our rock   -Zach Wilhelmy