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Beijing Olympic News!
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| Staviski gets 2 1/2-year sentence for fatal crash (AP) |
A court in Bulgaria has sentenced world ice-dancing champion Maxim Staviski to 2 1/2 years in prison for a fatal drunk driving accident. The court on Monday overturned an earlier suspended sentence for the same term. Staviski was found guilty of crashing his car into an oncoming vehicle in August 2007.
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| Napier, Schaaf qualify for bobsled Worlds (AP) |
John Napier and Bree Schaaf won the U.S. National Bobsled Championships at Mount Van Hoevenberg on Sunday and qualified for the World Championships. Napier, of Schenectady, N.Y., and brakeman Cory Butner of Yucaipa, Calif., won in 3 minutes, 45.87 seconds in the four-heat race. They held off Mike Kohn of Chantilly, Va., and brakeman Jacob Miller of Waterford, Va., by 0.30 seconds.
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| Zoeggler wins luge World Cup race on birthday (AP) |
Two-time Olympic champion Armin Zoeggler of Italy won a luge race on his birthday Sunday to extend his overall lead in the World Cup standings. Zoeggler finished in 1 minute, 34.458 seconds, 0.36 seconds ahead of David Moeller of Germany. Felix Loch, also of Germany, was third. "This was the best present I could make myself," said Zoeggler, a five-time world champion who turned 35.
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| Doping-Three Bulgarian athletes banned for two years (Reuters) |
Bulgarian sprinter Tezdzhan Naimova
has been banned for two years for manipulating a doping sample
while middle-distance runners Vanya Netova and Raya Stoynova
received two-year bans for doping.
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| Bolt sets sights on lowering sprint records further (Reuters) |
Jamaica's triple Olympic champion
Usain Bolt believes he can take the 100 metres world record
down to 9.58 seconds and go below 19 seconds in the 200 metres.
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| Will wild Vancouver weather disrupt games? (AP) |
Thousands of airline passengers stranded. Roads impassable because of snow. Power failures by the dozen. The last two weeks have been a winter nightmare for Vancouver -- huge dumps of snow followed by rain, heavy slush and flooding. All over the city, people are griping about the toll storm after storm has taken on their holiday season.
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| Olympic champion Hooker early selection for worlds (Reuters) |
Beijing Olympic pole vault
champion Steve Hookerleads a team of nine Australian athletes
pre-selected for next year's world championships in Berlin,
Athletics Australia said on Monday.
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| Creator of Bolt dance shot to death (AP) |
The creator of a dance step made famous by champion sprinter Usain Bolt at the Olympics has been slain in Jamaica. Police say David Alexander Smith was shot to death at a Kingston nightclub early Friday. The motive was not disclosed and no arrests have been made. The 36-year-old Smith was a dancer best known as the creator of the Gully Creeper.
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| Swimming-Suits affecting credibility, says top coach (Reuters) |
The high-tech swimming suits
worn when world records were lowered more than 100 times this
year could be affecting the credibility of the performances, the
coach of the world's fastest male and female swimmers has said.
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| China mulling bid for 2018 Winter Games (Reuters) |
Four months after successfully
holding the Summer Olympics in Beijing, China is mulling a bid
to host the 2018 Winter Games in the frigid northern city of
Harbin, state media said on Thursday, quoting a government
official.
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