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Amy Williams' helmet was bumpy. Her ride to Olympic gold, perfectly smooth. Williams finished off a surprising run to the women's skeleton gold medal at the Vancouver Games on Friday, giving Britain its first individual Winter Olympics title since figure skater Robin Cousins prevailed at Lake Placid in 1980. Williams finished four runs at the Whistler Sliding Center in 3 minutes, 35.64 seconds. Germans took silver and bronze, with Kerstin Szymkowiak ending up 0.56 seconds off Williams' pace...Read Full Story
Thanks to Pampers , our readers are being given the opportunity to win Olympic Prize packs featuring autographs from Noelle Pikus-Pace and Chad Hedrick. Both of these Olympians participated in the recent 2010 games as well as in the launch of the new Pampers Cruisers Diapers with Dry Max. Our review of these new diapers can be found here .
I've decided to give each of these special prize packs separately, so if you don't win this first prize pack you'll still have a second chance at...Read Full Story
Noelle Pikus-Pace has her own hotel room in Italy for the next few days, a perk of being the top-ranked American woman so far this season on the World Cup skeleton circuit. It'll make what's certain to be an emotionally tough time a little bit easier. The World Cup tour has made its way to Cesana Pariol, Italy, the site of sliding events at the 2006 Turin Games. Pikus-Pace would have been the gold medal favorite at those Olympics, but saw those hopes shattered when a bobsled smashed into her...Read Full Story
Zach Lund had a bad leg. Eric Bernotas had a bad run. Noelle Pikus-Pace had some bad luck. For some of America's Olympic skeleton hopefuls, there was no margin for error in Thursday's World Cup season openers. Latvia's Martins Dukurs won the men's World Cup start to this Olympic season, finishing in 1 minute, 39.75 seconds on the 2002 Salt Lake City Games track. He was 0.52 seconds — an eternity in skeleton — better than Germany's Sandro Stielicke, and 0.62 seconds ahead of Great Britain's...Read Full Story
Individual tryouts are complete for U.S. bobsled and skeleton Olympic hopefuls. Starting Monday, it's about becoming a team. The new U.S. World Cup teams headed to western Canada on Sunday for two weeks of training on the track that will be used for the Vancouver Olympics this February. It's an important time for the team, since no U.S. skeleton racer or bobsled driver will likely get more than 30 or so runs down the course in Whistler, British Columbia. And until the Vancouver Games begin...Read Full Story
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Noelle Pikus-pace (born December 8, 1982) is an athlete from the United States who competes in skeleton. Find more Noelle Pikus-pace news, pictures, and information here.
114 Days" chronicles the inspiring story of U.S. skeleton athlete and 2005 World Cup Champion Noelle Pikus-Pace. A victim of a freak training accident on October 19, 2005 in ...
Noelle Pikus-Pace (born December 8, 1982 in Orem, Utah) is an American skeleton racer who has competed since 2000. She won three medals at the FIBT World Championships with a gold ...
LAKE PLACID - World Cup skeleton champion Marion Trott of Germany broke the track record. American Katie Uhlaender just tried to soothe her broken heart. Only moments after Trott set the record on her first run Thursday in the world championships at ...