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Team USA snowboarder Dusty Henricksen is prepared to compete in the Beijing Olympic Games. When he was younger his entire family moved solely so he and his brother can snowboard. When the family first decided to move they had to live in a motorhome for…

Team USA luger Emily Sweeney will be returning for her second Olympic Games in Beijing after breaking her neck in the 2018 Olympics. Sweeney said that she remembers everything that happened during the accident, but that it didn’t feel as painful for he…

Team USA freestyle slopestyle Maggie Voisin will be returning for her third Olympic Games this year in Beijing and hopes to take home her first medal. She initially went to the Olympics in 2014 when the sport premiered at the games, but she fractured h…

Team USA bobsledder Elana Meyers Taylor is getting ready to compete in the Beijing Olympic Games, while also taking care of her son. “One of the biggest things I’ve learned is just to take things as they come and as every parent knows have a lot of pat…

Team USA skier Colby Stevenson is thankful that he will be able to compete in the Beijing Olympic Games after he almost lost his life in a bad car accident. “I was in a terrible car accident, I shattered my skull and stuff, it took a lot of determinati…

He can’t still be bitter about Super Bowl XLII, can he? Maybe it’s Super Bowl XLVI, too. It’s certainly plausible—what other explanation can there be for the text message snafu caused by New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick which now sitsfron…

Belgian Olympian Kim Meylemans has been released from isolation in Beijing after pleading for help due to her treatment ahead of the games. The 25-year-old skeleton racer was forced into isolation after she tested positive for Covid-19 upon arrival in …

Team USA bobsledder Hunter Church will be making his Olympic debut during the Beijing Olympic Games. Shortly before the games began Church had a weightlifting incident that almost caused him to lose one of his toes. “I was doing a hex bar deadlift and …

Team USA cross-country skier, Gus Schumacher, is ready to hit the slope this year in his first-ever Olympic Games. Schumacher is interested in the impact that climate change is having on his sport, and is worried about what it might mean for the future…

Two-time Olympian Tucker West will be returning to the games as a part of Team USA‘s luger team in this year’s Beijing Olympics. Despite difficulties inflicted on the sport by the covid pandemic, West’s training went well and he is ready to compete in …