Showing posts with label Freestyle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Freestyle. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Update Time

Caster Semenya publicly announced her return to competition. However, she was denied a spot in the race she intended to enter in Stellenbosch. A gender ruling is expected in June.

At the USA freestyle skiing championships, Hannah Kearney and Joey Discoe won the moguls titles, Jen Hudak and Tucker Perkins won the halfpipe, and Emily Cook and Matt DePeters won aerials. Tyler Jewell and Lindsay Lloyd won the parallel giant slalom while Lloyd and Chris Klug won the parallel slalom.

Hiroshima is considering bidding for the 2020 Olympics.

Troy Dumais (diving), Erin Hamlin (luge), Sanya Richards (track), and Rebecca Soni (swimming) were nominated for Sullivan Awards.

The US women qualified for the field hockey world cup.

The US women's curling team finished fifth at the world championships, their best finish since 2007.

Learn about America's power Judo family here.

Sunday, March 7, 2010

Weekend Update (Part 2)

Swiss skier Dominique Grisin won today's women's Super-G, denying Lindsey Vonn her 33rd World Cup title. Vonn finished second and Julia Mancuso was third. Canadian Eric Guay won the men's Super-G. Hannes Reichelt of Austria was second and Norway's Aksel Lund Svindal and Switzerland's Tobias Gruenfelder tied for third. Michael Walchhofer of Austria still leads the Super-G overall standing, but Svindal and Guay could catch him in the final race. Carlo Janka of Switzerland is also only now only 46 points behind overall World Cup leader Benjamin Raich of Austria heading into the final weekend.

Swiss ski jumper Simon Ammann won his sixth world cup title of the season Sunday. Poland's Adam Malysz, the runner up to Ammann in both events at the Olympics, was second and Austrian Thomas Morgenstern was third. In cross country skiing, Norway 2 defeated Norway 1 in a World Cup relay in Finland. Germany beat Russia in a photo finish for third. Norway also won the women's relay followed by Germany and Italy. Maksim Burtasov of Russia won the title at the under 26 biathlon European Championships.

Aiko Uemura of Japan won a women's moguls world cup race this weekend. Canadian Jennifer Heil, the overall leader, was second and American Shannon Bahrke was third.

In the first modern pentathlon World Cup event of the season, David Svoboda of the Czech Republic won gold. Russia's Serguei Karyakin was second and Andrejus Zadneprovskis was third.

USA Cycling named its track cycling world championship team on Friday. The squad will be led by individual pursuit defending world champion Taylor Phinney. Daniel Holloway, Colby Pearce, and Giddeon Massie round out the rest of the men's squad. Sarah Hammer, Lauren Tamayo, Dotsie Bausch, and Shelley Evans were named to the women's team.

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