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USA Luge Star, Erin Hamlin, Helps With Hometown Slider Search
The Republic USA Luge is on its annual search for new sliders, and after stops in New York City, Maryland, Illinois and California the team is making a visit to upstate New York. The national organization is holding recruitment clinics this weekend in Utica. The Slider Search tour uses sleds on wheels and discovered Erin…
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Ready for Rio: The Defending Champions
Team USA At the London 2012 Olympic Games, Team USA athletes won 46 events. This translated to 127 different U.S. athletes coming home with gold medals in their pockets — and 10 U.S. Olympians had more than just one. For diver David Boudia, it was the culmination of a dream that began in 1996 while he…
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Olympic Gold Medalist Nastia Liukin’s Top 7 Fitness Tips (& Other Burning Questions)
Haute Living If you’re looking for tips on how to get a killer figure, Nastia Liukin is your girl. This Olympic gold medal-winning gymnast has been named of the “11 greatest bodies on Earth” (in addition to other accolades, such as “Female Athlete of the Year” and “Individual Sportswoman of the Year.” You might know the…
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Olivia Reeves – Weightlifting
Career Highlights – About Me Weightlifting has found its newest star in Olivia Reeves. At the Paris Olympic Games she broke the 24-year Olympic Gold medal drought in weightlifting for the U.S. Olivia got her start in weightlifting at her parents Crossfit gym in Chatanooga, TN and while Crossfit training wasn’t her favorite, she loved…
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That “D” Word Being Built By Gymnastics Coach Chow
Des Moines Register Sports talk radio loves, loves, loves to debate whether teams have reached a level of dominance worthy of the dime-a-dozen “dynasty” tag. Liang Chow, though, has created an indisputable one amid a sea of sequins and taped wrists. Elite gymnasts Norah Flatley and Rachel Gowey each finished among the top four in…
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