Olympic medalist Dodd new pro volleyball commish Mike Dodd, an Olympic silver medalist, is the new commissioner of the American pro beach volleyball tour. Dodd will be in charge of the AVP’s competition, athlete welfare and sport development. Dodd won the silver medal in Atlanta in 1996, when beach volleyball made its Olympic debut. He [...]
White: MMA as Olympic sport ‘would be huge’ UFC president Dana White, in Sydney ahead of Sunday’s sold-out UFC 110 at Acer Arena, said while his company would not actively lobby the IOC for mixed martial arts to become an Olympic sport, he would support ’100 per cent’ their inclusion in the games. Read more [...]
Just minutes away, Olympic sport curling is hot The U.S. men’s curling team got off to a rocky start Tuesday on the first day of the round robin Olympic tournament. You might not have heard much about it amid the buzz over the likes of Bode Miller and Lindsey Vonn. Learn more about curling. Read [...]
The Bonus: Inside the mayhem of the newest Olympic sport — ski cross The starts are crucial in the regulated mayhem of ski cross, the newest Olympic sport. Sometimes the whole race is right there at the outset. A few seconds, the top of the world. You can feel the tension even during a practice [...]
Weather forces Olympic organizers to get creative Olympic downhill organizers will run men’s and women’s training in parallel on the same hill and at the same time Thursday in an unprecedented attempt to beat the Whistler weather. Read more on Reuters via Yahoo! News
