"olympic-training-center" Articles & Blogs:
Catching up with 2010 Olympic hopeful Rachael Flatt
| Seventeen year old Rachael Flatt, the 2008 World Junior Champion and 2008 US Championships silver medalist, has her sights squarely set on the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. After a short holiday in Hawaii this summer, Rachael is headed back to the ic...[Read on] |
Post-Baby Marathon Training Log: July 5, 2009 - What a Difference a Year Makes
| What a difference a year makes.
On July 4, 2008, I woke up sore and dehydrated from competing the night before in the Final of the 3000m Steeplechase at the US Olympic Track & Field Trials in Eugene, Oregon. I'd finished 10th, well out of the t...[Read on] |
Kara Goucher announces she is pregnant
| In a May 7th NY Times article, Kara Goucher announced her pregnancy. After revealing last April that she wanted to have a child prior to her build up to the 2012 Olympic Trials and Olympic Games, Goucher found out that she was pregnant in January. She s...[Read on] |
Cyclists keep coming back for more
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(Ed. Note: Cyclist Kim Geist is a member of the Pretty Tough Team)
I think cyclists are one of the most interesting types of athletes in the world. This is because not only is skill very important to the cyclist’s success, but it is vital that he or ...[Read on] |
Shawn Johnson wins Dancing with the Stars 2009
| Olympic Gymnast Shawn Johnson was crowned winner of Dancing with the Stars season 8 after performing a very confident Cha Cha with partner Mark Ballas.
After seeing Shawn’s very first dance at the beginning of the season I was skeptical that she would ...[Read on] |
Virginia Madsen Getting Into Olympic Fight
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I still have major issues with Madsen for shilling Botox, but her Title IX Productions which she formed last year is taking on a good fight - the right for women ski jumpers to compete in the Olympic games.
Film follows 15 athletes and their fight agains...[Read on] |
Visa Honors Winter Olympian Julia Mancuso
| Longtime U.S. Ski Team and U.S. Snowboarding partner Visa Inc. (NYSE: V), a Worldwide Olympic Partner for more than two decades, Thursday released a special edition television commercial celebrating Team Visa athlete Julia Mancuso’s second silve...[Read on] |
Olympic Snowboarder Karin Ruby dies in Chamonix climbing accident
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The world lost of its trailblazing female snowboarders on May 29 to a tragic accident.
Former Olympic snowboarding champion Karine Ruby of France fell into a 20m crevasse while climbing Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in Western Europe, located...[Read on] |
Mother's Day Interview - Gold Medalist Mary Wineberg
| Last week I talked to Mary Wineberg, lead-off leg of the 2008 Olympic gold medal-winning 4x400m relay team. In 2009, she and her husband had their first child, Brooklyn Marie, who is now 9 months old. Mary is already back in shape and setting “post-...[Read on] |
How Olympic athletes pay the rent
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If you’re dreaming of becoming an Olympic athlete, remember that beyond all the training, competition and glory there is a lot of financial struggle. Training for the Olympics (never mind competing) is at least a full-time (usually unpaid) job and even ...[Read on] |
Got One of Ralph Lauren's Opening Ceremony Hats? You Could eBay It for $200
| Shaun White, center, sporting Ralph Lauren gear at the Vancouver Winter Games opening ceremony. As Team U.S.A.’s first Olympic medalist, mogul skier Hannah Kearney, summed it up best when we saw her yesterday: “It’s been a good Olympics for swag,”...[Read on] |
adidas Track Classic and Olympic gold medalist Allyson Felix looking for LA’s fastest 5-year-old
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Winner will be Crowned “L.A.’s Fastest Five-Year Old” during Premier Track and Field Event at The Home Depot Center
Carson, CA (April 28, 2009) – The adidas Track Classic, one of the premier track and field meets in the country, and Olympic gol...[Read on] |
Dirty Boxing, Dirty Dancing, heading to the Catskills
| 8th Annual Fantasy Boxing Camp, August 19-22 at Kutsher's Resort in Monticello, NY. You can train with pros and enjoy the resort...I'll be doing a reading, and there will be a boxing exhibition for participants. Boxers and the Catskills have a long hi...[Read on] |
Notes from a Sports Psych Grad Student: Composure
| Editor's Note: Anne Shadle was a 2-time NCAA Champion (Indoor Mile and Outdoor 1500m) while an undergraduate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She then competed as a professional Track & Field athlete for Reebok from 2005-2008, capp...[Read on] |
Join the Women’s Sports Foundation in Washington
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February 3, 2010 marks the 24th annual celebration of National Girls and Women in Sports Day, a day to celebrate and promote girls’ and womens’ participation and excellence in sports.
NGWSD is marked annually with events around the country and on Cap...[Read on] |
Lindsey Vonn's Life in the Fast Lane
| Lindsey Vonn training on a Super G race course in Vail, Colorado, on November 23, 2009. Photographs by Jack Affleck, Vail Mountain, Colorado. Some Olympic moments are unforgettable: When U.S. swimmer Jason Lezak chased down Frenchman Alain Bernard in the ...[Read on] |
Volleyball star Kerri Walsh becomes a mom
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Olympic gold medals are cool. But two-time Olympic beach volleyball gold medalist Kerri Walsh just got the biggest prize of all: She became a mom.
Walsh, 30, and her husband, AVP pro-volley ball player Casey Jennings, 33, welcomed son Joseph Michael Jenn...[Read on] |
Formula for Success: Motivation, Focus & Drive
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The past few weeks, ChickSpeak has covered the 2010 Olympic Winter Games by featuring articles on inspiring athletes and their practically unprecedented, awe-inspiring accomplishments - including Angela Ruggiero’s historical hockey games and Lindsey Jac...[Read on] |
Exclusive workout with Olympic hopeful Lindsey Vonn
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We’re kicking our Olympic coverage into high gear and will be profiling all of the winter sports and athletes you need to know about.
One of athletes to watch is ski racer Lindsey Vonn who is a favorite on and off the slopes. She’s a back-to-back Wor...[Read on] |
“Join the Journey NYC” for equality in sport on Oct. 21
| American Lindsey Van has launched off ski jumps more than 20,000 times — often going the length of two football fields. In 2009, she became the first women’s world champion of ski jumping. But she didn’t compete in the Olympic Winter Games in Vancou...[Read on] |
Unemployment Rate Rising Faster Among Women
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Recovery Act Jobs and Training Must Include Women
Unemployment data released today show that women’s unemployment rate rose faster than men’s in May – and unemployment among women who head families rose even faster, the National Women’s Law Cente...[Read on] |
Kara Goucher post-Boston: “I wanted to be the one that won for everybody”
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Kara Goucher was in tears. As soon as she hit the finish line. She had given it everything she had on that day and on the hundreds of days leading up to it: the tough training, the sacrifices, the tweaks in nutrition, the meticulous planning of each and e...[Read on] |
WTS Podcast Series: Pioneer Sports Journalist Christine Brennan, Part 2
| Welcome to the second podcast in a 3-part series of interviews with Christine Brennan, renowned sports journalist, best-selling author and commentator. Brennan was a pioneer as a female sports journalist and is still today the most widely-read femal...[Read on] |
Shania Twain carries Olympic torch
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Country singer Shania Twain carried the Olympic torch in arctic conditions in her childhood hometown on New Year’s Day, as the torch relay continued ahead of the 2010 winter Olympics in Vancouver.
Twain carried the torch for 400 meters and lit a cauldr...[Read on] |
The new Olympic spirit?
| So remember when everyone was all "boo hiss China"? They were about to host the Olympics and a lot of Americans got their retro commie high horses to talk about--well mostly how great the West and free speech and capitalism are. And granted there were a ...[Read on] |
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