Here are the results of our poll about favorite Olympic sports. An overwhelming majority (over 50%) favored figure skating. 14% of participants like ice hockey. 10% favor ski jumping. Curling and speed skating tied at 7%. Freestyle skiing, luge, and snowboarding each received 2% of the vote. The rest [...]

Canadian-born ice dancer Tanith Belbin longs to compete in this year’s Olympics. The catch is that she’d like to compete as an American. Congress has cleared the way for this to happen by passing a bill that would allow her to become an American citizen before the February Olympics in Turino. Under normal conditions, [...]

World-beating figure skater Mao Asada will not skate for the Japanese team for the Winter Olympic Games because she is too young, the Japan Skating Federation said. International requirements say that a skater must turn 15 by July of an Olympics year to compete in the Olympics. Mao’s birthday was in September. While I [...]

The women’s Olympic hockey team should be in good shape since they bring to the games several experienced members. Olympic veterans Jenny Potter, Katie King, Tricia Dunn-Luoma and Angela Ruggiero were selected Tuesday for the U.S. women’s hockey team that will compete at the Turin Games. This will be the third Olympics for all four. To [...]

The U.S. Olympic team contains many familar names— Apolo, Bode, Michelle Kwan, and Jeremy Bloom, among them. Will this mean gold for the U.S.A.? The U.S. Olympic committee is optimistic. Michelle Kwan is battling an injury but is hopeful that she will make the team at Nationals. Bode Miller has been battling officials off the [...]

I first saw the pictures of the new medal design for the Torin Olympic medals on a fellow blogger’s site. After a little bit of looking around, I found more about it on this site. The basic jist is that it’s a donut, or a bagel, or whatever you want to call it, but it’s [...]

Australia has finalized their short track speed skating team for the Torino Olympics, while Canada plans to announce their final team by January 4th. Japan is also finalizing its choices. The competition to skate at the Olympics is fierce before you even get to the games. Only eight teams compete in the short track [...]

One of my favorite things about the Olympics are the Awww stories. You know the ones I’m talking about. Those stories about the underdog, the heroic stories, the sob stories. Dan Jansen. The 1980 U.S. hockey team. The Jamaican bobsled team. Well, this story has the potential to be one of [...]

MSNBC has a really great site for easily looking up when events occur, which days are medal events, and other information about winter events in this February’s winter Olympics.

Ice dancer Tanith Belbin was sworn in this morning as a U.S. citizen. This clears her to skate for the United States in February’s Olympics in Turin, Italy. She and Ben Agosto are favorites to win the United States’ first ice dance medal since 1986. The United States Congress passed a bill to expedite [...]

Chad Hedrick has qualified to skate in five events in the Turin Olympics. In the process of qualifying, Hedrick set a world record in the 10,000 meters. His time of 12 minutes, 55.11 seconds beat the old record by nearly 3 seconds. In that race, Hedrick won by nearly a minute over second-place Charles Leveille. Hedrick [...]

The U.S. Olympic skeleton team coach has been placed on administrative leave, pending an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment. 2002 Olympic gold medalist Tristan Gale and Felicia Canfield claim coach Tim Nardiello has made sexual advances and explicit comments toward female racers. Neither athlete will be competing in the Turin Winter [...]

Earlier this week Derek Parra emotionally announced to the skaters preparing for the Olympic trials the reason he’s been distracted recently. He’s getting a divorce. Some people remember his wife and newborn baby from the Salt Lake City Olympics. That was a happier time. Parra explained that recently he hasn’t been [...]

Today we added a new Winter Olympic Trivia page on our website. Every week leading up to the olympics we will be posting a new quiz. Take our first Winter Olympics Trivia quiz and let us know what you think. And if you have any trivia questions you think we should include, be sure [...]

I challenge you, dear readers, to stump me! I consider myself somewhat of an above average amateur researcher. So, I challengeyou to come up with an Olympics question that I can’t find the answer to. What do you win if you stump me? The winner will receive your name in the headline of [...]

I think the developing theme of our blog is “human interest stories of the Olympics.” Maybe that’s because that’s the main thing that seems to make the news two months out. Maybe it’s because that’s what’s interesting to me. Maybe it’s because it makes for a more exciting blog entry than “Bloom [...]

I think this article I read recently on the U.S. team’s Olympic uniforms is pretty funny. The look is supposed to be a combination of high-tech materials with retro styling. My favorite quote about the uniforms? “The parade pant is nylon, and the style is supposed to be a mix of a formal dress [...]

I’m not sure I fully understand the new speed skating event slated for the Turin Olympics. Called “Team Pursuit”, it involves three skaters working as a team. The time that counts for the team is the time for the third person on the team crossing the line. The lead position is traded [...]

The Italian planning commission has taken great pains to make the construction of the 2006 Olympic venues as environmentally friendly as possible. The committee has worked with the U.N. environment agency (the U.N.E.P.) to insure that resources are used as efficiently as possible.

In 2002 Werner Hoeger made news at the Salt Lake City Olympics as the oldest athlete competing, at the age of 48. At this year’s Turin Olympics, he will compete again for his native Venezuela, at the age of 52, in the luge. In the Salt Lake City Olympics, Hoeger competed with his son. [...]