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AP Top Olympic News At 10:17 p.m. EST
With boisterous crowd cheering her on, Rochette takes short program at Skate Canada
KITCHENER, Ontario (AP) -- Listening to her coach paid off for Joannie Rochette....
US skier Resi Stiegler done for season after breaking bones in left leg during training crash
VAIL, Colo. (AP) -- U.S. skier Resi Stiegler is out for the season after breaking two bones in her left leg in a crash during giant slalom training....
Germans go 1-2 in men, Canada wins women's race in World Cup skeleton at Lake Placid
LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) -- The home-ice advantage for the U.S. skeleton team vanished for the second straight week in World Cup competition and Canada and Germany took advantage in the snowless Adirondack Mountains....
Canadian court releases ruling, says only IOC can decide which events are inluded in Olympics
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- Vancouver Olympic organizers didn't violate women ski jumpers' rights because they had no power to include their event in the 2010 Winters Games....
Northug enters Olympic season as man to beat in cross-country, and with swagger to match
Petter Northug enters the Olympic season as the man to beat in cross-country skiing, and he isn't doing much to downplay expectations....
Get to know the Vonntourage _ skier Lindsey Vonn's traveling staff and fan club
Lindsey Vonn and her husband, Thomas, were sitting on the couch watching "Entourage" when the idea popped into Thomas' head - the "Vonntourage." As the top female skier on the World Cup circuit the past two seasons, Vonn travels full time with two physical trainers provided by Red Bull, her ski technician, and her husband - a former U.S. Ski Team member and Olympian....
With World Cup looming, US Olympic luge veteran Tony Benshoof dealing with aching back
Olympic luge slider Tony Benshoof's back is aching again, just as the international racing season is set to begin....
Plan to use cruise ships for lodging at Vancouver Olympics is dead in the water
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- An Olympic housing plan in which thousands of visitors would have stayed on cruise ships has been called off because of the rough economy....
Penguins captain Crosby goes from carrying Stanley Cup to running with Olympic torch
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (AP) -- Five months after lifting the Stanley Cup, Sidney Crosby carried the Olympic torch as thousands of people lined a downtown street....
Sweet reward: Erin Hamlin's world championship in luge came with a dessert, and a bulls-eye
For $5.89, anyone can taste how Erin Hamlin was immortalized. Vanilla ice cream, stacked with Reese's peanut butter cups, Oreos and hot fudge, topped with whipped cream and a cherry. In the sleepy village of Remsen, N.Y., pop. 514, that's how homage was paid to a local who stunned the luge world - the World Champion Erin Hamlin Sundae, a popular item at The Soda Fountain in town....
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