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Champion Q and A: U.S. Ski Jumper Billy Demong

... You also got a chance to spend some time with old friends in Lake Placid when you were there for U.S. Champs, right'You also got a chance to spend some time with old friends in Lake Placid when you were there for U.S. Champs, right'Demong: There were a few things going on back there, catching up with friends and family and also some things with the local ski clubs. It's...

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U.S. Cross Country Ski Championships Return To Anchorage

Anchorage, AK - For the second season in a row the ConocoPhillips U.S. Cross Country Championships will call Kincaid Park its home as the event makes its way to Anchorage, a hotbed of cross country ski action, during the first week of January, just over a month from the time that top athletes competing will be heading to the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver.

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U.S. champ Sloan favored at gymnastics worlds

LONDON (AP) -- When Bridget Sloan's friends heard she was coming to London, one asked her to bring back pictures from a Chelsea game.Maybe next time.If things go as expected at the world gymnastics championships, Sloan won't have much free time this week.A year after being the youngest member of the U.S. team that won the silver medal at the Beijing Olympics, Sloan is the one to beat...

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Placid Ready for U.S. Champs Saturday

Lake Placid, NY - Athletes went through final training Friday in advance of Saturday's U.S. Ski Jumping and Nordic Combined Championships as a part of Lake Placid's Flaming Leaves Festival. World Champions Todd Lodwick (Steamboat Springs, CO) and Lindsey Van (Park City, UT) will be among the favorites. Nordic combined star Lodwick is after his 20th U.S. title, while ski jumper Van is...

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Placid Ready for U.S. Champs Saturday

Athletes went through final training Friday in advance of Saturday's U.S. Ski Jumping and Nordic… Read

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Alexander, Jerome Win U.S. Ski Jump Titles

Lake Placid, NY - Nick Alexander of Andover, N.H. and Park City, Utah's Jessica Jerome kicked off the 2010 U.S. Ski Jumping Championships as Alexander took his first and Jerome won her seventh U.S. jumping title Saturday in Lake Placid. The Championships took place as part of Lake Placid's Flaming Leaves Festival.

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Is Boston next for streak-breaker Keflezighi?

Meb Keflezighi has become a streak buster in the marathon. In the 2004 Olympics, his silver medal ended a 28-year U.S. drought ...

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Champion Q&A: Billy Demong

... also got a chance to spend some time with old friends in Lake Placid when you were there for U.S. Champs, right'There were a few things going on back there, catching up with friends and family and also some things with the local ski clubs. It's always good to get home especially during the Flaming Leaves Festival, the most beautiful time to be on the east.Unfortunately, you didn't...

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XC Championships Return To Anchorage

For the second season in a row the ConocoPhillips U.S. Cross Country Championships will call Kincaid… Read

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Knee problems sideline Meissner

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) Former world and U.S. champion Kimmie Meissner has withdrawn from her two Grand Prix events because of knee problems. The 2006 world gold medalist and 2007 U.S. champ has been bothered by tendinitis in her right knee after suffering a dislocated kneecap. On Thursday, she dropped out of the Cup of Russia and the NHK Trophy skating competitions....

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Alexander, Jerome Win Jump Titles

Nick Alexander (Andover, NH) and Jessica Jerome (Park City, UT) kicked off the 2010 U.S. Ski Jumping… Read

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Kimmie Meissner withdraws from Grand Prix Series

Kimmie Meissner, former world and U.S. champion in figure skating, has withdrawn from Cup of Russia and NHK Trophy, her two Grand Prix events, because of knee problems.

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Chelios, 47, could open season with minor-league team

... will lose $2,590 in salary.Meissner slowed by knee injuryCOLORADO SPRINGS — Former world and U.S. champion figure skater Kimmie Meissner has withdrawn from her two Grand Prix events because of knee problems.The 2006 world gold medalist and 2007 U.S. champ has been bothered by tendinitis in her right knee after suffering a dislocated kneecap. She dropped out of the Cup...

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Meissner withdraws from Grand Prix events

Former world and U.S. champion Kimmie Meissner has withdrawn from her two Grand Prix events because of knee problems.

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Meissner withdraws from Grand Prix events

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Former world and U.S. champion Kimmie Meissner has withdrawn from her two Grand Prix events because of knee problems.