Ice Skating

Sasha Cohen gears up for another Winter Olympics

It's personal drive that pushes her in the quest for Olympic gold. Not that Cohen's decision to return to skating to pursue competing in a third Olympic Games in Vancouver after more than a three-year absence hasn't prompted...

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Figure skating: A flagship performance?

Brandon Mroz performs during the men's short program event of the 2009 World Figure skating Championships at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on March 25, 2009. And if he makes the U.S. Olympic team for the Vancouver Games in...

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Chinese speedskaters expect full-scale improvement in Vancouver Olympics

CHANGCHUN, Jilin Province, Nov. 8 (Xinhua) -- Vancouver Winter Olympics could become a place where Chinese speed skaters redeem their past regrets. Xing Shuo, deputy director of China's speed skating association, said he hoped...

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Nesbitt opens season with 1,000m gold

Christine Nesbitt skates to win at the World Cup speed skating competitions in Berlin, Nov. 7, 2009. (REUTERS/Tobias Schwarz) BERLIN - Canadian long-track speedskater Christine Nesbitt is picking up where she left off last...

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Americans win ice dancing event at NHK Trophy, Canadians third

NAGANO, Japan - Americans Meryl Davis and Charlie White won the ice dance event while Canadians Vanessa Crone and Paul Poirier were third Sunday at the NHK Trophy ice skating event. Davis and White were first after the original...

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Speed skating: Hamelin skates to gold for Canada

Canwest News ServiceNovember 7, 2009 5:15 PM Photograph by: David Boily, AFP/Getty Images Charles Hamelin of Levis, Que., took the gold medal in the 1,500 metres Saturday in Montreal at the short-track speed skating World Cup....

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Nagashima third in season opener

BERLIN (Kyodo) Keiichiro Nagashima finished third in the men's 500 meters in the season-opening Berlin meet of the speed skating World Cup circuit. Nagashima clocked 35.13 seconds to place third — well behind South Korea's Lee...

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China's Qing, Jian are NHK pairs champs

Canadian pairs finish 5th, 7th Qing Pang and Jian Tong of China perform in the Pairs Free Skating at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating NHK Trophy on Saturday in Nagano, Japan. (Junko Kimura/Getty Images) Thanks to a strong...

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Speed skating: Morrison’s stumble doesn’t negate Olympic spot

A stumble in the second corner likely cost Denny Morrison a spot on the podium Friday in the opening men’s 1,000-metre race of the International Skating Union World Cup long track speed skating season.

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Figure skater Elvis Stojko marks beginning of music career

Elvis Stojko, 37, has returned to the spotlight after all but retiring following the 2002 Olympics with the release of the single, "Let Me Be The One," reports the Canadian Press. Stojko's album "100 Lifetimes" will be released...

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