Apolo Anton Ohno: ‘Pretty sure’ my career is over (Photo: Getty Images) American short-track speedskater Apolo Anton Ohno’s racing career is apparently over as of Wednesday. And while you’ll still see him at the Sochi Games next February, it will be with a mic in his hand as a correspondent for NBC. Read the complete story.
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Apolo Anton Ohno: ‘Pretty sure’ my career is over

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American short-track speedskater Apolo Anton Ohno’s racing career is apparently over as of Wednesday. And while you’ll still see him at the Sochi Games next February, it will be with a mic in his hand as a correspondent for NBC.

Read the complete story.

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Judge: ‘Blade Runner’ Oscar Pistorius can leave South Africa while on bail in murder case (Photo: AP, file) PRETORIA, South Africa — A South African court eased bail restrictions on Olympian Oscar Pistorius, who is charged with murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, with the judge saying he should be allowed to travel abroad. Read the complete story.
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Judge: ‘Blade Runner’ Oscar Pistorius can leave South Africa while on bail in murder case

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PRETORIA, South Africa — A South African court eased bail restrictions on Olympian Oscar Pistorius, who is charged with murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, with the judge saying he should be allowed to travel abroad.

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Sochi Winter Olympics organizers store snow, just in case (Photo: Shaun Botterill / Getty) SOCHI, Russia - While Moscow digs itself out of a huge snow storm that hit the Russian capital in the last few days, organizers of the Winter Olympics are worried a lack of white powder could become a problem next February. Read the complete story.
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Sochi Winter Olympics organizers store snow, just in case

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SOCHI, Russia - While Moscow digs itself out of a huge snow storm that hit the Russian capital in the last few days, organizers of the Winter Olympics are worried a lack of white powder could become a problem next February.

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Skier Lindsey Vonn never thought crash ‘was going to be the end of my career’ (Photo: TODAY) In an exclusive interview, Lindsey Vonn, one of the most decorated Olympic skiers in history, talks to TODAY’s Matt Lauer about the devastating injury she sustained just one year before the start of the Sochi Olympics, saying she still has “plenty of time to be ready” for the 2014 Games. Read the complete story.
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Skier Lindsey Vonn never thought crash ‘was going to be the end of my career’

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In an exclusive interview, Lindsey Vonn, one of the most decorated Olympic skiers in history, talks to TODAY’s Matt Lauer about the devastating injury she sustained just one year before the start of the Sochi Olympics, saying she still has “plenty of time to be ready” for the 2014 Games.

Read the complete story.

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IOC drops wrestling from 2020 Olympics (Photo: Matt Kryger-USA TODAY Sports) Most assumed it was a foregone conclusion that Modern Pentathlon would be dropped from the Summer Games schedule in 2020 to make way for a new sport. But in a surprise decision, the IOC has instead removed wrestling, which has been contested at all but one Olympics since 1896. Read more from NBC Sports.
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IOC drops wrestling from 2020 Olympics

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Most assumed it was a foregone conclusion that Modern Pentathlon would be dropped from the Summer Games schedule in 2020 to make way for a new sport. But in a surprise decision, the IOC has instead removed wrestling, which has been contested at all but one Olympics since 1896.

Read more from NBC Sports.

Source: olympictalk.nbcsports.com

Lindsey Vonn airlifted to hospital after ‘scary’ crash in Austria (Photo: FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images) Two-time world champ Lindsey Vonn has been flown to a hospital after suffering a serious crash on the opening day of the Alpine World Championships in Schladming, Austria during the super-G event. Read more from NBC Sports.
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Lindsey Vonn airlifted to hospital after ‘scary’ crash in Austria

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Two-time world champ Lindsey Vonn has been flown to a hospital after suffering a serious crash on the opening day of the Alpine World Championships in Schladming, Austria during the super-G event.

Read more from NBC Sports.

Source: olympictalk.nbcsports.com

Olympic medals ‘stolen’ as athletes celebrate at London nightclub (Photo: Ian West / PA via AP, file) Two British Olympians say that their medals were stolen — and they’ve turned to social media in an attempt to get them back.“I suddenly realized my daughter would never see this medal — what I’d worked so hard for, for 12 years,” British rower Alex Partridge, one of the Olympians whose bronze was stolen, said. Read the complete story.
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Olympic medals ‘stolen’ as athletes celebrate at London nightclub

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Two British Olympians say that their medals were stolen — and they’ve turned to social media in an attempt to get them back.

“I suddenly realized my daughter would never see this medal — what I’d worked so hard for, for 12 years,” British rower Alex Partridge, one of the Olympians whose bronze was stolen, said.

Read the complete story.

Source: worldnews.nbcnews.com

Coed swim relays at the Olympics? FINA, swimming’s governing body, is apparently throwing a 4x50m coed medley relay onto the schedule at its World Cup meet in Dubai this week, and maybe seven other meets later this year. If all goes well we could soon see the race at the world championships and eventually even the Olympics. Read the complete story.
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Coed swim relays at the Olympics?

FINA, swimming’s governing body, is apparently throwing a 4x50m coed medley relay onto the schedule at its World Cup meet in Dubai this week, and maybe seven other meets later this year. If all goes well we could soon see the race at the world championships and eventually even the Olympics.

Source: olympictalk.nbcsports.com

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