I’ll dig into the 2014 projections soon. In the meantime, Philip Hersh offers best-case and worst-case scenarios for the USA in Sochi: We predict U.S. medal hopes for 2014 Olympics – chicagotribune.com.
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Monday Myriad, March 18: Judges, skating, thin ice, etc.
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Monday Myriad, March 11: Skating through the dysfunction
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Storify and WordPress aren’t speaking to each other at the moment, so just go to Storify and see all the great videos of soccer, speedskating and freestyle skiing, plus a few good tweets and features from biathlon and elsewhere.
World Cup spring, USA vs. Maze: “I want that globe”
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Slovenia’s Tina Maze has the overall World Cup Alpine title in hand, more than doubling her closest pursuer (2,254 points to 1,065 for Germany’s Maria Hoefl-Riesch. The only suspense remaining in the women’s standings: Can Maze complete an unheard-of sweep…
Monday Myriad, March 4: Nordic state of mind
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Headlines from the week: – Slovenia’s Tina Maze is having the best Alpine skiing World Cup season of all time. – Norway’s Maret Bjoergen had one of the best Nordic World Championships of all time. – Shaun White was back in action with another…
Alpine update: Maze sweeping, USA rotating
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Today’s Alpine skiing news goes beyond what I can sum up on Twitter: First, let’s talk about Tina Maze. Last season, she finished second to the dominant Lindsey Vonn, but she didn’t win a single race. This year, she has…
Monday Myriad, Feb. 25: Nordic gold! Nordic gold!
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Headlines from myriad sports this week: - Sarah Hendrickson won the world championship in women’s ski jumping. - Kikkan Randall and Jessie Diggins won the world championship in cross-country skiing’s team sprint, the first skiing title for the USA in Nordic World Championship history. – The…
Monday Myriad, Feb. 18: Slalom and shoot
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Headlines of the week: - Ted Ligety won the giant slalom, his best event, for his third title at the Alpine skiing World Championships. Then 17-year-old Mikaela Shiffrin won the slalom. That’s four golds and a bronze for the USA in 10 individual events.…