Olympic giant slalom silver medalist Christin Cooper explained Lindsey Vonn’s crash at the world championships Tuesday and weighed in on what she thinks it will take for Vonn to get back to the slopes in time for Sochi on NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams.
It probably doesn’t make the Germans too happy that BMW developed a lighter, faster, and sleeker two-man bobsled for Team USA in Sochi, but we’re admittedly ecstatic.
The competition in Sochi starts a year from today, but with nationals and World Cup events happening as we speak, the competition is already heating up.
Vancouver figure skating gold medalist Evan Lysacek will be taking questions and chatting with his fans from the @NBCOlympics handle on Twitter Wednesday starting at 2:30 pm est.
A spokesman released this exclusive statement from Lindsey Vonn Wednesday morning, which Matt Lauer read on the TODAY show: “First off I want to say thank you to the amazing medical staff that cared for me.
Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn’s season ended on the mountain in Austria Tuesday when she lost her balance and tumbled end over end down the super-G course until eventually sliding to a stop.
In a race marred by Lindsey Vonn’s injury, fog delays, and plenty of DNFs, World Cup points leader and two-time Olympic silver medalist Tina Maze of Slovenia provisionally won the world super-G championships Tuesday in Schladming, Austria.
Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn will be out for the season after suffering a serious knee injury during a crash at the Alpine World Championships in Schladming, Austria Tuesday during the super-G.
Former-ish action star Arnold Schwarzenegger has said he’ll be back for the Sochi, while staring ominously through a pair of dark sunglasses, no doubt.
Ashley Gill-Webb, the man who semi-infamously threw a bottle onto the London track during the men’s 100m final, was sentenced to eight weeks community service Monday after the judge determined that his idiot mistake, which could have been a “massive embarrassment on the country,” was at least partly due to his bipolar disorder.
With a tough season already under her belt and rumors swirling about her personal life, Vancouver downhill gold medalist Lindsey Vonn will be surrounded by bodyguards for the alpine skiing World Championships, which start Tuesday in Austria.
Chicago Bulls star Luol Deng must carry some weight in the British sporting world, because his plea to have basketball once again funded by the state worked: The BOA offered a reprieve to the sport Friday, and will indeed fund it for the Rio Olympics.
Torino figure skating champ Yevgeny Plushenko underwent back surgery Thursday in Tel Aviv, and actually had a deteriorated spinal disc removed and replaced with a synthetic one.
Three of Americas top young speed skaters will miss February’s junior worlds in Poland, where many Olympians make their first mark in the sport, because the U.S. federation didn’t establish the skaters’ international eligibility in time for the deadline set by the sport’s governing body.
Torino figure skating champ Yevgeny Plushenko says he’ll skate at his hometown Sochi Games next February despite an upcoming operation on an intervertebral disc in his lower back.
