VIDEO: American Lindsey Vonn gets her 50th career World Cup win at Garmisch
At 27, Lindsey is the youngest woman to reach 50 World Cup victories. Only Annemarie Moser-Pröll of Austria, with 62, and Switzerland’s Vreni Scheider, with 55, have more. Of her 50 World Cup victories, 25 have been downhills.
Lindsey now has 1350 points for the season, a whopping 482-point lead over Tina Maze of Slovenia. Höfl-Riesch [...]
SAILING VIDEO: Get to know TEAM USA
Eight more members of US Olympic Team – Sailing Announced
An additional eight members of the US Olympic Team – Sailing have been selected. Athletes competing in 49er, Star, Women’s 470, Men’s RS:X, and Laser
The following US Sailing Team AlphaGraphics athletes earned their positions at the 2012 Summer Olympic Games, which will be [...]
GOLF: Lydia Ko becomes the youngest golfer to win a Professional golf tour event
Fourteen-year-old New Zealand amateur Lydia Ko has become the youngest winner of a professional golf tour event, taking the women’s New South Wales Open by four strokes Sunday. The New Zealand Amateur champion carded a three under par 69 in the final round to claim the title she missed out on last year [...]
Track & Field: Lolo Jones making a statement on and off the track
Jones back on top at U.S. Open
1/28/2012
NEW YORK — Lolo Jones made a successful return after an injury-plagued 2011 season and Jamaica’s Asafa Powell ran the fastest 50-meter time in the world since 2005 en route to winning Athlete of the Meet honors Saturday at the U.S. Open presented by Harris at Madison Square [...]
SOCCER: USA defeats Costa Rica and qualify for the 2012 London Olympics
2012, Vancouver, Canada, FIFA Olympic Women’s Soccer Trials, Costa Rica applied some early pressure, but is wasn’t enough as Team USA is confirmed for the Olympics winning 3-0.
The U.S. WNT advances to its fifth straight Olympic Games after defeating Costa Rica 3-0 in the first semifinal of the CONCACAF Women’s Olympic Qualifying tournament. Tobin [...]
TENNIS: AUSTRALIAN OPEN 2012 – Inside the Life of Victoria ‘Vika’ Azarenka- Australian Open 2012 Winner & New World #1
Playing in her first Grand Slam final and with the No.1 ranking on the line, Victoria Azarenka stepped up in a big way, posting a lopsided 6-3, 6-0 win over Maria Sharapova in the Australian Open final en route to becoming the first Belarusian to win a Grand Slam title and become the WTA World [...]
Abby Wambach & Sydney Leroux Named 2011 U.S. Soccer Athletes of the Year
U.S. Soccer has announced the 2011 Athletes of the Year. Clint Dempsey, Abby Wambach, Brek Shea and Sydney Leroux give their acceptance speeches as the winners of this prestigious award.
CHICAGO (Jan. 20, 2012) – For their excellence at the highest levels of the sport, U.S. Soccer named U.S. Women’s National Team [...]
SOCCER: CONCACAF Women’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament, Jan. 19-29, Vancouver – USA crushes DOM in Olympic Soccer Trials
2012, Vancouver, Canada, FIFA Olympic Women’s Soccer Trials, within minutes, the top ranked USA was scoring points, the 88th ranked Dominican Republic muster little offend, losing 14-0.
U.S. WNT Scores Seven Goals in Each Half to Pass Previous Record of 12 Goals in a Game
Rodriguez Ties U.S. [...]
Janet Evans, 40, books Team USA Olympic swimming trials berth
Four-time Olympic gold medallist Janet Evans‘ comeback continued to gather pace on Sunday as the 40-year-old mother of two qualified for the US Olympic trials in the 800m freestyle.
Evans, who made the trials cut-off in the 400m freestyle on Friday, won her heat [...]
NASCAR: Katherine Legge’s Blog: I’m Back! – Indianapolis 500 – Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Legge, Danica Patrick and Switzerland’s Simona de Silvestro are the only women drivers with full-time IndyCar deals in 2012.
Read Katherine’s Blog: I’m Back! – Indianapolis 500 – Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Introducing IndyCar hopeful Katherine Legge…
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