Noelle Pikus-Pace

Noelle Pikus-Pace is a member of the U.S. Olympic team at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Noelle Pikus-Pace is competing for medals in Olympic Skeleton. Find more Noelle Pikus-Pace news, pictures, and information here. Competing with Noelle Pikus-Pace in Olympic Skeleton are: Rachelle Rasmussen Martin Rettl Greg Sand Luke Schulz Caleb Smith Rebecca Sorensen Keslie Tomlinson Kyle Tress Katie Uhlaender Courtney Yamada-Anderson Event Schedule: February 18 4:45 PM Skeleton - Women's Heat 1 February 18 5:45 PM Skeleton - Women's Heat 2 February 18 6:45 PM Skeleton - Men's Heat 1 February 18 7:45 PM Skeleton - Men's Heat 2 February 19 8:45 ... 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 leg during a training run in Calgary, Alberta, and a valiant comeback bid wasn't ... Read Full Story

Canada's Jon Montgomery and Britain's Shelley Rudman won World Cup skeleton races Friday on the 2006 Turin Olympic track. Katie Uhlaender led the Americans with a fifth-place finish in Italy. Montgomery's two-run time of 1 minute, 55.54 seconds was about a half-second better than Latvia's Martins Dukurs . Canada's Jeff Pain took third, while Americans Eric Bernotas and Zach Lund tied for ninth. Rudman's time of 1:57.46 was easily good enough for gold in the women's race. Germany's Marion Trott was second and Canada's Mellisa Hollingsworth finished third. Uhlaender is still recovering from a series of offseason knee surgeries. She finished one spot ahead ... 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 Kristan Bromley in third. In the women's race, which was cut to one run because of a heavy ... 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, this two-week look is the last the Americans will get. "The more information we share, what equipment we're on, ... Read Full Story