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On February 16th, 2006, twenty-year old American snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis was poised to win the first gold medal in women’s snowboard cross. With a seemingly insurmountable lead over other competitors all she needed was a clean run and the gold medal would be hers. But as Lindsey entered the last 100 meters the unthinkable happened, choosing to add some flare to the run, she grabbed the back edge of her board then lost her balance and fell. She writes about all of those times in her new novel “Unforgiving: Lessons of the Fall.”
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Several of the sliding athletes recently previewed the 2022 games.
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Three members of the Vermont National Guard will compete in next month’s Olympics in Beijing.
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Re-entry into a non-Olympic world always takes me a few days. I’ve had the privilege of working on the ground at eight Olympic Games, and coming home, whether from Sydney, Australia or Torino, Italy, always brought a mixture of melancholy and exhaustion, exhilaration and gloom.
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The Winter Olympics begin this week in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Lake Placid hosted the 1932 and 1980 winter games and is now a key training site for U.S.…