Most of us here at Pwhq have Olympic fever, and however you feel about the rest of the coverage, there's one cool way to follow these games that we've never had before: Athletes themselves are tweeting the experience! Indeed our debut stud of the day Chris Plys is one of Vancouver's most prolific tweeters, but a lot of members of Team USA are active Twitterfolk. Behold: Alpine Skiing Hailey Duke Erik Fisher Ted Ligety Julia Mancuso Steven Nyman Marco Sullivan Lindsey Vonn Andrew Weibrecht Jake Zamansky Biathlon Jeremy Teela Bobsled Steven Holcomb Steve Mesler Elana Meyers Justin Olsen Cross-country skiing...
- 2/17/2010
- by Margaret Lyons
- EW.com - PopWatch
Andy Newell at the 2006 Olympics in Torino. Most people would agree that cross-country skiing is not a spectator-friendly sport. It’s sort of like watching a marathon, except colder and—especially for Americans—even more boring. But the cross-country sprint event—introduced at the 2002 Olympics—is more exciting for the casual viewer. And this is what 26-year-old Vermont native Andy Newell, America’s best hope for a medal in the men’s sprint, wants you to believe. Newell, who produces cross-country ski videos to give the sport more exposure when he’s not training 800 hours a year for the Olympics (seriously, 800 hours), has two World Cup medals and is ranked sixth in the world this season in sprints, the event he’ll be competing in today in Vancouver. In the sprint event, competitors ski a 1.6-kilometer loop, and the fastest 30 skiers move on to five quarterfinal knockout heats, from which...
- 2/17/2010
- Vanity Fair
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