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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From the U.S. Snowboard team:
Lindsey Jacobellis' (Stratton Mountain, VT) status as the most dominant woman in snowboardcross remained unfettered Friday as she won to retain her position as the World Cup SBX leader on the Olympic course at Cypress Mountain. Jacobellis was joined on the podium by fellow U.S. Snowboarder Seth Wescott (Sugarloaf, ME) who was third.
"It's one of the best courses I have ridden all year," Jacobellis said. "It flowed really nicely and it's nice that I did so well."
Jacobellis won each of her heats, but it was a tactical line that shot her ahead in the final round.
"It feels great and I'm happy to win any race. At the entrance of the first banked turn I was in third and then dropped in low for a pass and drifted up and I felt like I got some speed out of that turn, then I just tried to maintain the lead for the rest of the way down," Jacobellis said.
From the U.S. Ski Team:
Kikkan Randall (Anchorage) made it to the finals in the women's race, finishing sixth in a freestyle sprint at Vadidentro, Friday. Torin Koos (Leavenworth, WA) sprinted to eighth, marking his and Randall's best finishes of the season.
"Like usual, it was a good and bad day," Cross Country Sprint Head Coach Chris Grover said.
Andy Newell was on target to have one of the fastest qualifying times of the day when he crashed on the final downhill, just 100 meters from the finish. Even though the course was one of the longest on the sprint World Cup, Newell lost crucial momentum and could not make up enough time, finishing 47th.
From the U.S. Ski Team:
Ted Ligety (Park City, UT) blazed from ninth place to take the bronze at the 2009 FIS Alpine Ski World Championships giant slalom Friday. He was edged by Swiss skier Carlo Janka, who won, and Austria's Benjamin Raich took silver.
"I was pretty upset after the first run. I knew I had to step it up and I skied with a fair amount of risk. I was pretty happy to be cleaner than first run," Ligety said.
Ligety said he struggled in the first run as conditions on the hill varied from icy sections to grippy snow throughout the course.
