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Will new high-tech Olympic gear be the next global doping scandal?
The Olympics has a doping problem, and it has nothing to do with getting hopped up on steroids or tinkering with genetics. “Technology doping” is a growing issue in competitive sports as every year breakthroughs in engineering and science lead to high-tech equipment and materials that can blur the line between enhancing athletic performance and straight up cheating.
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Alleged Olympic vote-swapping deal would keep Canada from gold
French magazine L'Equipe alleges the U.S. and Russia have struck a deal to help each other out at Sochi Winter Olympic figure skating events, which would keep Canada's Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir from the gold.
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Prepare for the Olympic Whining of Figure Skater Evgeni Plushenko
Today in Sochi, veteran Russian figure skater Evgeni Plushenko took the ice in the team skating event. At 31, Plushenko is old for a skater, and the Russian announcers made sure to mention that, over the course of his career, he has had 13 surgeries. His health was so precarious, in fact, that his participation in the Olympics was not decided until very late in the game: according to his coach, Plushenko "still had screws in his back" and the jumps were hard to pull off.
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California dreamin' on Sochi winter's day
Kate Hansen of the U.S. speeds down the track during the women's luge training at the Sanki sliding center in Rosa Khutor, a venue for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics near Sochi, February 6, 2014.
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Norwegian Speedskater Captures Majesty Of Olympic Flame
Norwegian speedskater Håvard Bøkko uploaded this picture of the Olympic flame to Instagram.
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The Sochi scandal no one’s talking about: How Russia is silencing its environmentalists
Olympic construction is destroying Sochi. And the government is cracking down on the people who dare to speak out
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Sochi Winter Olympics: Newcastle street art protests against Russia's anti-gay laws
A street artist in Newcastle paints a mural in protest at Russia's laws against gay propaganda, on the day of the Sochi opening ceremony. Ida4, whose real name is Chris Fleming, has spray painted a young gay protester being pinned down by a Russian policeman. He says it is really important for gay people to have the state on their side.
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Ashley Wagner's "Bullshit" Moment Is The First Meme Of The Sochi Games
It's safe to say American figure skater Ashley Wagner was expecting a better score than that. Her face--along with all pretense--dropped after seeing the judges' thoughts on her short program in ladies team competition.
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Oh No, Russia’s New Olympic Darling Skates to the Theme From Schindler’s List
According to the New York Times, the Russian teenager’s "signature piece"—one she'll likely perform in the Olympic long program—is set to John Williams' theme from Steven Spielberg’s 1993 Holocaust drama Schindler’s List. But that's not all: The routine features Lipnitskaia skating as the film’s iconic “girl in the red coat,” a young Polish Jew who is killed by Nazi soldiers.
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The 1932 Winter Olympics Looked Way More Fun, Dangerous than Sochi
Buried deep in the video database of the Internet Archive is footage of one of the first Winter Games — Lake Placid in 1932. The Olympics have changed since then; they're safer, smarter, and lamer.
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Dutch twins win speed skating medals
Michel Mulder wins gold and his twin Ronald bronze in a clean sweep for the Netherlands in the 500m speed skating in Sochi.
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No, the guy responsible for that faulty Olympic ring isn't dead
No one was killed in the making of the spasm-ing Olympic rings from the opening ceremony.
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Canadian cross-country coach Justin Wadsworth lends ski to Russian skier when in trouble
Justin Wadsworth may be the head coach of the Canadian cross-country team, but that doesn’t mean he won’t help a rival skier in need. When Russia’s Anton Gafarov crashed and broke a ski during a semifinal heat in the men’s cross-country sprint, Wadsworth was right there to help.
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Team Canada has a beer fridge that can only be opened with a Canadian passport
The Canadians actually have their own Molson refrigerator in their Olympic House. And to top it off, you need to swipe a Canadian passport to open the refrigerator!
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Russia hoarded 400,000 tons of snow for over a year so it could save the Olympics this week
The palm trees lining the boulevards give it away: It can get pretty warm in Sochi. In fact, it hit a high of 61°F (16°C) in the city yesterday, and wasn’t much cooler today. Even higher temperatures are forecast for later this week. Of course, temperatures are much chillier up in the mountains, and despite some grumbles about the mushiness of the snow, the Olympic alpine events have so far gone off without a hitch.
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Bob Costas to Pass Olympics Mic Tonight
NBC's Bob Costas will be replaced by Matt Lauer on the network's primetime coverage of the Winter Olympics on Tuesday due to a worsening eye infection that has troubled the veteran anchor throughout the Sochi games.
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Luge P.O.V. - This is how it feels to be a luger
What it's like to fly down an ice tunnel at 130 km per hour, wearing nothing but spandex and a helmet... Just don't blink.
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Dutch dominating Olympic Speed Skating
Stefan Groothuis continued the golden run of the Dutch at the Adler Arena by winning the men's 1,000 meters speed skating title
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The Death Of The Spoiler Alert?
Sochi, Russia's largest resort city, sits in the shadow of the Caucasus Mountains, 5,178 miles away from New York. And with the 2014 Winter Olympics off and running, that vast distance poses a not-inconsequential time difference for viewers here in America. Families on the East Coast are forced to reckon not just with a nine-hour tape delay, but with the breakneck output of the Internet's instant-news economy.
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The Stench of Sochi
Let’s just admit that this Winter Olympics in Sochi just stinks. It fails as a spectator sport—curling?—and is just a giant show for one of the world’s most sinister tyrants.
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