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Catching up with Blaine Wilson
NBC Sports This three-time Olympic men’s gymnast once described himself as a cross between Dennis Rodman and Michael Jordan. Blaine Wilson had a one-of-a-kind personality and a performance record rivaled by few others in USA Gymnastics history. The pierced, tattooed and motorcycle-riding Ohioan preceded the Hamm twins, Jonathan Horton and Danell Leyva and John Orozco as the rock of U.S. men’s…
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Nick Goepper Takes Dating Contest Winner Out in NY
NBCOlympics.com Kent State senior Annie Rogers‘ first trip to New York was a memorable one, beginning with a Cadillac Escalade pickup from the airport and including two days with Olympic bronze medalist Nick Goepper. Rogers, “just a normal Ohio girl,” won a social media contest for a date with the slopestyle skier Goepper last month. They met Saturday…
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Nick Goepper visits White House with Team USA
Fox 19 The post-Olympic whirlwind tour for Lawrenceburg, Ind. native Nick Goepper continued Thursday as he visited the White House with the U.S. Winter Olympic and Paralympic teams. Goepper won the bronze medal in slopestyle skiing in February at the 2014 Sochi Games. Goepper tweeted several photographs from his visit to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. In…
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Hamlin named Best Female Athlete from Sochi
Lake Placid News Remsen native Erin Hamlin was named as the best female Olympian on Wednesday as part of the Best of U.S. awards program that recognizes outstanding performances from the Olympic and Paralympic Games, as determined by fan vote. “I’m pretty much in awe,” said Hamlin, a luge athlete who trains and lives part-time…
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Nastia Liukin visits St. Mary’s
Queens Chronicle Patients at St. Mary’s Hospital for Children got a chance to meet a real Olympic star last week. Nastia Liukin, who won five gymnastic medals for the United States at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, including a gold in the all-around, stopped by the Bayside facility on Friday. She came to inspire…
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