SOCHI, Russia — Music, dance and plenty of Russian bravado unleashed the ultimate achievement of Vladimir Putin’s Russia on Thursday — a Winter Olympics to showcase the best athletes on ice and snow that the world has to offer. The opening ceremony on the edge of the Black Sea and subsequent games are Russia’s chance […]
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Olympic complaints on Twitter more popular than official account
The @sochiproblems page has more than 200,000 followers detailing makeshift shower curtains, broken sidewalks and a lack of hot water in Sochi as competition begins. By comparison, @sochi2014 has about 140,000 followers seeing pictures of pristine ski slopes and gleaming venues for the competition starting today. President Vladimir Putin spent more than $45 billion staging […]
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From Stockholm to Sochi, biathlete Currier realizing an Olympic dream
Visitors must traverse down a steep hill to enter the northern Aroostook County town of a little more than 200 residents, but are greeted by several large ornamental snowflakes attached to roadside utility poles. Just beyond the bottom of the hill rests the heart of a village originally settled by Swedish immigrants during the late […]
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King, other lawmakers raise safety concerns about Olympics
WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of Congress expressed serious concerns Sunday about the safety of Americans at next month’s Olympics in Russia and said Moscow needs to cooperate more on security. Suicide bombings last month in the southern Russian city of Volgograd, about 400 miles from where the Sochi Games will be held, have contributed to […]
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American Jacob wins World Cup snowboardcross event; Maine’s Wescott fails to qualify for finals
Seth Wescott’s bid to win a third straight Olympic gold medal in snowboardcross may be in jeopardy. The Carrabassett Valley resident, in his first competition since undergoing reconstructive knee surgery last spring, finished 49th among 73 competitors in Friday’s qualifying round for a World Cup event at Vallnord-Arcalís, Andorra. That left Wescott one spot short […]
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Poirier’s induction well deserved
There’s no question Greg Poirier earned the honor to be inducted into the Maine Skiing Hall of Fame last Friday at the Lost Valley Ski Area. The Rumford native develop a life’s passion on the slopes, and he is recognized both at the national and international level. Poirier’s last big endeavor was the head coach […]
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Two-time Olympic gold medalist Seth Wescott has Sochi, and 2018, in sight
The 37-year-old Wescott is overcoming a knee injury in hopes of being healthy for the Sochi Olympics, where he would have a chance to win snowboardcross for the third straight time. But before he even begins that quest, he’s committing to staying in his sport through at least 2018, a year after he hits the […]
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No sanctions likely for Olympian Lolo Jones after bar fight incident in Lake Placid
The U.S. Bobsled and Skeleton Federation said Tuesday night it has found no reason to sanction Olympic hopeful Lolo Jones for her role in a nightclub altercation that involved the stepdaughter of one of the sport’s Hall of Famers. Jones and the woman, whose name was not released, got into some sort of argument early […]