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Author:  Madeline [ 19 Dec 13, 19:13 ]
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Live Winter Olympics

BBC Two: Fri 7th Feb 3:30pm - 7:15pm

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'You bitch, you bitch': What Heather Mills allegedly shouted at Paralympics official as she quit UK disabled skiing team after 'wrong type of boot' stops her competing
Sir Paul McCartney's ex-wife said to have lunged at official in row
According to IPC sources, the 45-year-old had to be restrained by staff
The mother-of-one was preparing for the 2014 Winter Paralympic Games

By EMMA THOMAS Mail

www.sochi2014.com

Author:  Madeline [ 20 Dec 13, 1:14 ]
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Figure skating legend Brian Boitano comes out - the THIRD American headed to Sochi Olympics to announce they're gay Mail

Author:  Madeline [ 20 Dec 13, 23:26 ]
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We're facing the cold reality of a Paralympics without Heather Mills
Disaster looms as one of Lost in Showbiz's oldest and dearest friends has failed to have her prosthetic leg ratified by the IPC and is threatening to withdraw from the Sochi games

Follow Marina Hyde by email www.theguardian.com

Author:  JimD [ 02 Jan 14, 1:00 ]
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Jamaican bobsleigh team are back in the running for Winter Olympics glory

It’s the impossible dream that just won’t fade away. Four men, who had never seen snow until they reached their 20s, are plotting a happy ending to one of sports most endearing stories at next month’s Winter Olympics.

Some 26 years after the first ever Jamaican bobsleigh team captured the imaginations of fans by going for gold at the Calgary Games in Canada, a new generation of hopefuls is dreaming of a podium finish in Sochi, Russia.

The original team – Devon Harris, Dudley Stokes, Michael White and Nelson Stokes – were the ultimate underdogs… a team of sprinters from the Caribbean island, who tried their luck on the ice and failed miserably by crashing off the course on one of their four runs.

Their hard luck story at the 1988 Winter Games was later immortalised in the 1993 film Cool Runnings, starring John Candy.

But, after failing to qualify in 2006 and 2010, the Jamaicans hope to try their luck once again.

The new hopefuls – Marvin Dixon, Hanukkah Wallace, both 31, Wayne Blackwood, 42, and Winston Watts, 46 – aim to finish inside the qualifying zone by the January 20 deadline.

Driver Watts admits he was terrified the first time he climbed into a bobsleigh in 1993.

‘It was horrible. I said to myself, “Why am I doing this?” Then I said, “I must be the chosen one.”’

He added: ‘Jamaica has the best athletes in the world. We have the fastest man in the world in Usain Bolt, so the skill is there.

‘This time could be it.’

But he faces an uphill task to get the Jamaican team to the bobsleigh run at Sochi – they’re currently ranked 55th and only the top 30 teams qualify.

Metro

Author:  Madeline [ 19 Jan 14, 11:41 ]
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Olympic skier Chemmy Alcott is Team GB’s comeback queen
“If it was easy there’d be no satisfaction in achievement,” says Britain’s leading downhill skier
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Author:  Madeline [ 20 Jan 14, 21:24 ]
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Jamaican bobsleigh team qualify for Sochi 2014 - bookies offer 10,000/1 on a repeat of Cool Runnings www.radiotimes.com

Author:  Madeline [ 30 Jan 14, 11:26 ]
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IOC policy puts athletes at the bottom of Vladimir Putin's Olympic pile
IOC sporting events have become one giant political demonstration in which the athletes are a mere plot device

Marina Hyde www.theguardian.com

Author:  Madeline [ 03 Feb 14, 19:31 ]
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Vladimir Putin's Anti-Gay Propaganda Law Finds Support Among America's Religious And Social Conservatives


Paul Vale www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

Author:  Madeline [ 09 Feb 14, 13:34 ]
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Sochi 2014: Jenny Jones wins historic British slopestyle bronze BBC

Author:  Madeline [ 09 Feb 14, 18:21 ]
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Jamie Anderson Wins Women's Slopestyle Gold As U.S. Team Sweeps Top Prizes In New Event www.huffingtonpost.com

Author:  Madeline [ 09 Feb 14, 18:25 ]
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The Lost Tribe Of Sochi www.thedailybeast.com

Author:  Madeline [ 10 Feb 14, 1:08 ]
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Sochi 2014: Yulia Lipnitskaya inspires Russia's first gold BBC

Author:  Madeline [ 10 Feb 14, 10:22 ]
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Jenny Jones: Story of first Brit to win on snow - from selling doughnuts to Olympic glory
By Martin Bagot Mirror

Author:  Madeline [ 11 Feb 14, 1:52 ]
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Winter Olympics 2014: Putin's iron grip can't stop @SochiProblems going viral
When even the athletes are taking the piss, you can't help feeling the forces of totalitarianism are fighting a losing battle


Marina Hyde www.theguardian.com

Author:  Madeline [ 14 Feb 14, 1:47 ]
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Elise Christie disqualified in chaotic final BBC

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