VANCOUVER (Reuters) – Relentless rain washed out women’s downhill training on Sunday, scrapping any alpine skiing on the first weekend of the Winter Olympic Games, while lugers aimed for gold on a track shortened to boost safety after the death of a Georgian competitor.
The day’s action kicks off with the nordic combined before the men’s luge takes centre stage at Whistler’s Sliding Centre.
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England make it two wins out of two in the Six Nations but they have to survive a brave Italian fightback before securing a nervy victory in Rome.
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India take on South Africa in the second Test at Kolkata.
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VANCOUVER (Reuters) – Canada, a country now entirely gripped by Winter Olympics fever, watched helpless on Saturday as an ice-cool American snuck in to snatch gold from mogul favorite Jennifer Heil and prevent a 34-year national sporting jinx being broken.
Canada’s wait for Olympic gold on home soil continues as Hannah Kearney of the United States pips Jennifer Heil to gold in the freestyle skiing moguls.
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Swiss ski jumper Simon Ammann wins the first gold of the 2010 Games, but the men’s downhill is postponed because of poor conditions.
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VANCOUVER (Reuters) – Organizers shortened the world’s fastest luge track for safety on Saturday after a crash killed a Georgian Olympian as Swiss ski jumper Simon Ammann won the first gold medal at a Games plagued by warm, wet weather.
France produce an impressive display to outclass Grand Slam holders Ireland 33-10 in their Six Nations clash in Paris.
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The 2010 Winter Olympics officially open but the ceremony in Vancouver is overshadowed by the death of 21-year-old Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili.
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The luge competition at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics will go ahead on Saturday despite the death of Nodar Kumaritashvili.
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VANCOUVER (Reuters) – A snowboarder soared through the Olympic rings and skiers schussed down mountains in the unlikely confines of a stadium as Canada whipped up a wintry wilderness for Friday’s opening of the 2010 Winter Games.
The 2010 Winter Olympics will begin under a serious cloud after the death of a Georgian luger in training ahead of Friday’s opening ceremony.
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VANCOUVER (Reuters) – Nodar Kumaritashvili, a 21-year-old Georgian luger, died in a horrific crash on a training run on Friday, casting a pall over the Winter Olympics hours before the Games were to be declared open.
Georgian luge competitor Nodar Kumaritashvili dies after a high-speed crash, casting a shadow over the opening of the Winter Olympics.
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VANCOUVER (Reuters) – Injured American skier Lindsey Vonn might get her groove back in time for the Winter Games after the downhill favorite told Facebook friends on Thursday she could possibly race through the pain.
Vancouver will welcome athletes from 72 nations to the 2010 Winter Olympics in Canada at Friday’s opening ceremony.
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VANCOUVER (Reuters) – American skiing ace Lindsey Vonn suited up and donned her skis on Thursday but came no closer to clearing up the biggest doubt of these Winter Olympic Games on the eve of their opening: will she be fit to race?
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