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Luge: Huefner wins second luge gold for Germany

February 16th, 2010

Germany’s Tatjana Huefner claimed gold in the women’s singles on Tuesday as the German team threaten to sweep all three luge titles at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
Huefner posted the fastest time of 2mins 46.524sec over the four runs while Austria’s Nina Reithmayer claimed second at 0.490sec behind with Germany’s Natalie Geisenberger third, 0.577sec off the pace.
With the body of Nodar Kumaritashvili flown home to Georgia on Monday, the mood was still sombre here for Tuesday’s women’s runs at the Whistler Sliding Centre, where the Georgian died in a training run accident last week.
After 20-year-old Felix Loch dominated the field to claim the men’s singles title on Sunday, Huefner claimed victory in the women’s with a flawless fourth run and only the doubles title remains to be decided.
Having held an overnight lead of 0.05sec over the field, Huefner turned the screw on Tuesday’s third run with an almost perfect slide to open a 0.268sec gap.
The margin between the German and Reithmayer in second looked decisive and so it proved as the German clocked a top speed of 134.1kph on the last run to take gold.
Germany’s women have dominated the luge in recent Winter Games.
Reithmayer has the distinction of being the only non-German to claim an Olympic medal in the women’s singles luge this century after Germans took gold, silver and bronze at both Salt Lake City in 2002 and Turin four years ago.
Since the country reunified in 1990, Germany has won the men’s, women’s and doubles titles at Nagano in 1998 and at Calgary in 1988.
In the doubles, Austria’s Linger brothers, Andreas and Wolfgang, are the defending Olympic champions from Turin and will be challenged by Germany’s Andre Florschuetz and Torsten Wustlich, who won silver in Turin.

source: www.vancouver2010.com

Quebec City To Bid For 2022 Or 2026 Olympic Games

November 9th, 2009

According to the Canadian Press, Le Soleil, a Quebec City newspaper, reported Saturday the city will make a bid for the 2022 or 2026 Winter Olympic Games.
Le Soleil reports Quebec Premier Jean Charest and Quebec City Mayor Regis Labeaume are expected to name Quebec Remparts president Clause Rousseau to head what is being called “Team Quebec”.
The committee’s mandate will be to ensure the provincial capital region has top-of-the-line sports facilities to attract high-level competitions in the run up to an eventual bid.
Last month Charest and Labeaume said they hoped to see the Olympics come to Quebec City, and the mayor recently unveiled plans for a $400 million arena that would seat 18,000, reports the Canadian Press.
Quebec City will also reportedly promote its bid at the Vancouver 2010 Games with a cultural pavilion near the Olympic village featuring Quebec artists and athletes.
Quebec City had losing bids for the 2002 and 2010 Games.

IOC will not reinstate softball for the 2016 Olympic Games

August 19th, 2009

Softball will not be included in the programme for the 2016 Olympic Games as the 15 members of the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) Executive Board decided Thursday at a meeting in Berlin. One of the seven sports in contention for the 2016 Games, softball was passed over in favor of golf and rugby as the list of possible additions was narrowed down to a final two candidates.

“Obviously, we’re very disappointed by the IOC decision today as we were hoping for softball to be considered for inclusion in 2016,” said Ron Radigonda, the executive director of the Amateur Softball Association of America (ASA)/USA Softball. “However, softball is still an international sport power as we have been. We have to continue to focus on the World Championships next July here in Oklahoma City and future international events. Despite today’s announcement, softball will continue and move on and work to be stronger than ever.”

Also eliminated from contention were baseball, karate, roller sports and squash.

In Copenhagen on October 9, at a meeting that will also decide the host of the 2016 Olympic Games between four candidate cities, golf and rugby are being put forward by the Executive Board for an entire vote of the IOC. Both sports must be approved by the majority of 107 IOC members in order to be added to the Olympic Programme starting with the 2016 Games.

Record-breaking audience to tune in to Vancouver’s 2010 Olympic Games

August 18th, 2009

The 2010 Games will be the best covered in Winter Olympic history, judging by the overwhelming interest in a media centre for unaccredited journalists, says B.C.’s minister for the Games.

“In all, media at the centre will reach more than 500 million viewers a day,” said Mary McNeil, the provincial minister of state for the Olympics, referring to the $2.5-million government-funded B.C. International Media Centre.

The centre, with 1,300 spots, is still tiny compared to the International Broadcast Centre and the Main Media Centre for 10,000 accredited broadcast, print and Internet-based journalists. Their work at the waterfront Vancouver Convention Centre, built for nearly $900 million, is expected to attract as many as three billion worldwide television viewers.

But the centre for unaccredited journalists, which in past Olympics has been a poor sister to the official media centre, has been overwhelmed with requests and every inch of available space is booked.

More than 24 news agencies and television broadcasters are setting up in the new centre, which will temporarily take over the University of B.C.’s Sauder School of Business at Robson Square. They’ve been lured by abundant space, central location to downtown events, the provision of high-value standup camera positions and at-cost high-speed transmission facilities.

ESPN, ABC, Fox News, Associated Press TV, British Press Association and several Asian news agencies have all said they will set up newsrooms at the centre.

It will also serve as the base for reporters representing more than 400 newspapers, said McNeil.

Svetlana Kuznetsova seized chance, but women’s game still seeks superstar

It took Svetlana Kuznetsova just 74 minutes to clinch the women’s French Open title on Saturday, but this was a triumph that was more than a year in the making.
The Russian seventh seed blew away world No.1 Dinara Safina 6-4, 6-2 on Court Philippe Chatrier to secure a triumph that owes everything to her own intuition and desire to battle for her career.
Though Kuznetsova is still just 23, her life has been built around tennis. Over the past year, there were several occasions on which she contemplated walking away from a game that had steadily become a chore to her.
In the end, she had the courage to seek advice, never an easy task in the egocentric world of tennis, from those she respected. Those impromptu counselors included Roger Federer and even Safina’s brother, Marat Safin, who gave her a pep talk before the 2008 French Open.
The chat with Safin led to the abandonment, at least temporarily, of retirement plans. The discussion with Federer at the Beijing Olympic Games resulted in a move back to Russia, the homeland she left as a 13-year-old to pursue training opportunities in Spain.
Kuznetsova’s game has not directly improved since her return to Moscow, but her mindset has. Indeed, she is believed to spend less time on the practice court now, and a greater portion of her life socializing with friends.
It appears, however, that it was that newfound sense of inner calm which gave her the mental strength to fight past Serena Williams in a nerve-jangling semifinal and to surge away from a nervous Safina on Saturday.
Women’s tennis is still looking for one superstar to break clear of the pack and establish herself as the undisputed leader of the sport. Safina had a chance to move some way toward that mark at Roland Garros, but she fluffed her lines when it really mattered after putting together an outstanding tournament. Kuznetsova probably lacks the all-round consistency and weapons to get to No.1, but she is a deserving and worthy champion.
Once again, the women’s game has proven itself wide open, and Kuznetsova had the fortitude to grasp an opportunity where others faltered.

source: sports.yahoo.com Svetlana Kuznetsova

Female ski jumpers renew call for Olympic inclusion

March 26th, 2009

Female ski jumpers continue to fight an uphill battle in their quest to compete in the Winter Olympic Games.
In an attempt to advance their cause, two elite jumpers — Katie Willis of Calgary and 2009 world champion Lindsey Van of Park City, Utah — appeared at a Wednesday media conference in Denver to urge International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge to meet with them.
“It was definitely frustrating,” Van said. “We didn’t get to meet with Rogge, but we got our idea across to the media that we want to meet and don’t really want to go ahead with a lawsuit, but that’s where we’re headed.”
Van and Willis are among 15 plaintiffs in a lawsuit that is to be heard April 20 in B.C. Supreme Court. The lawsuit was filed in May by female ski jumpers who maintain that they should be able to compete at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. Male ski jumpers have been in the Olympics since the inaugural winter Games in 1924.
Rogge is in Denver for IOC executive board meetings, which began Wednesday and are to continue until Friday. The plaintiffs sent Rogge a registered letter last week, but he did not respond to their request for a meeting.
“That’s just how they work,” Van said. “The top guy in IOC is not going to make an appearance for some athletes that he doesn’t want to be in his Games, anyway.”
The International Ski Federation gave a resounding endorsement of female ski jumpers in 2006, voting 114-1 in favor of their inclusion in the 2010 Olympics. The IOC was not swayed, however, maintaining that ski jumping at the women’s level had not developed to the point where it was of Olympic caliber.
The lawsuit has been filed against the Vancouver Olympic Games Organizing Committee. The suit contends that the exclusion of women is discriminatory and in opposition to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
“The reason it’s not (filed against) the IOC is very simple: Nobody has any authority over the IOC,” Women’s Ski Jumping USA president Deedee Corradini said Wednesday. “They can do whatever they want, so we had to look for another way to get this done.
“As our lawyers took a look at what our options were, VANOC, we feel, is the right place.
Our belief is VANOC can control whether the women jump or not. If this goes our way, VANOC is just going to have to tell the IOC, ‘The women have to jump. You can’t break the laws of Canada and we are subject to those laws.’ ”
Vancouver organizing officials contend they should not be the defendant because the IOC dictates the composition of the Winter Olympics. The IOC has not budged.
“If you have three medals, with 80 athletes competing on a regular basis internationally, the percentage of medal winners is extremely high,” Rogge told reporters on Feb. 28, 2008. “In any other sport, you are speaking about hundreds of thousands, if not tens of millions, of athletes at a very high level, competing for one single medal.
“We do not want the medals to be diluted and watered down. That is the bottom line.”
Corradini said there are close to 100 women from 18 countries competing at the elite level. A total of 166 women are registered as active jumpers with the International Ski Federation.
Since 1991 the IOC has demanded gender equity from any sport it adds.
However, ski jumping has been grandfathered, or “grandmothered” in this case. Ski jumping and Nordic combined (which includes ski jumping and cross-country skiing) are the only male-exclusive sports in the Winter Olympics.
“It doesn’t make sense,” said Willis, 17. “We’re doing whatever we can. We’ve gone through all the steps. This is the last step so hopefully this will be the thing we want.”
The first women’s ski jumping world championship was held Feb. 20 in Liberec, Czech Republic, with Van winning the gold medal.
The IOC has said it is amenable to adding women’s ski jumping for the 2014 Winter Olympics, earmarked for Sochi, Russia, providing its criteria can be met. Van is not prepared to wait that long.
“I need to get out and move on with my life if this isn’t going to happen,” the 24-year-old Van said. “I’m not going to wait for a bunch of old guys to decide my future when I can take it into my own hands and move on from ski jumping if it doesn’t happen now.”
For 2010, the women are asking for one event to be held on the normal hill in Whistler, B.C. The men’s event includes competition on the normal hill and large hill, as well as a team event.
Corradini — a former mayor of Salt Lake City — cannot understand why the IOC members are not open to that request.
“They would be heroes,” she said. “Everybody would shine. The lawsuit goes away. Why don’t they do something so simple?”

source: vancouversun.com

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