Click photo to enlargeIan Griffith, a freshman at the Winter Sports School in Park City, said his expectations of the school have been met so far this year. The school is a college preparatory organization for students who are passionate about winter sports. According to Headmaster Rob Clayton, the school’s mission is to prepare winter [...]
Koreas 4-man bobsleigh team led by Kang Kwang-bae, right, competes in the World Cup in Igles, Austria in the 2009-10 season. / Korea Times fileBy Yoon Chul PyeongChang is a small largely unknown town in Gangwon Province. When it first announced its bid to host the Winter Olympics, most foreigners confused it with Pyongyang, the [...]
Former Olympic skeleton silver medallist Jeff Pain also won three world championship medals during his career. (Jeff McIntosh/Canadian Press) Jeff Pain spent his Olympic career sliding down sheets of ice with his body as close to the floor as possible. But now the former skeleton competitor will be helping Canada’s women ski jumpers fly high [...]
POSTED: July 18th 2011 SpeakingUp LAURA WALDEN / Sports Features Communications TAMPA/ATLANTA, Jul 18: Terrence Burns, president of Helios Partners, takes time out to talk to SportsFeatures.com about the complex strategy behind Olympic bidding and the PyeongChang 2018 bid presentation. Helios Partners developed the bid’s overall communications strategy and managed an extensive network of Olympic Games [...]
by sportswriters Gao Peng, Sun Liping SHANGHAI, July 17 (Xinhua) — A day after the 10th anniversay of his election as the President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Jacques Rogge said on Sunday that he is not satisfied with his job over the past decade. “I have the mentality of an athlete as I [...]
