From news on athletes, tickets, facilities and the border, Adventure writer Craig Hill takes you inside the ramp up to the 2010 Winter Olympics. Just 175 miles north of Tacoma, the Vancouver, B.C., games will likely be the closest the Olympics ever come to the South Sound region.
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Here are the official statements from VANOC about the test events this weekend. Not surprisingly it's declaring them all a success.
- Whistler Bobsled and Skeleton World Cup
- Cypress Freestyle Skiing World Cup
- Four Continents Figure Skating Championship
Olympic champ Ted Ligety, who is expanding his racing repertoire this season, has a nasty crash earlier this week at the World Championships.
Here's the video:
Patrick Deneen of Cle Elum just missed a medal Saturday night in the moguls at the Freestyle World Cup at Cypress Mountain.
Deneen took the lead on his run, but was bumped off the podium when the second to last skier, Alexandre Bolideau of Canada, laid down the winning run.
“Fourth is pretty good,” said Deneen, who is now eighth in the world moguls standings. “But I could have done better. It will be different next year.”
American Hannah Kearney finished second in the women's race behind Canadian Jennifer Heil, the defending Olympic champ.
WHISTLER – If quick starts truly are the key to bobsledding success, then Bremerton’s Bree Schaaf could be a force to be reckoned with at the 2010 Olympics.
The 29-year-old has only been piloting bobsleds since late 2007, but even she can’t believe how quickly her career his starting.
Schaaf drives USA 3, so expectations weren’t exactly high going into the season. She’s changing that.
She beat the top two U.S. bobsleds to win the national championship last month, and Friday afternoon she made a noisy World Cup debut.
Racing on the track that will host the 2010 Winter Olympics, Schaaf and teammate Emily Azevedo finished sixth, .66 seconds behind winners Shauna Rohbock and Elana Meyers, also of the U.S. Kallie Humphries piloted Canada 2 to second place and USA 2, driven by Erin Pac, was third.
“It's amazing, just unbelievable,” Schaaf said. “I am so excited. Really, I am so excited, which is all I can say because it's all that I feel. This gives me something to work towards next year."
