Bill Plaschke, Chicago Tribune...

No, it's not the Miracle on Ice, but the Americans' landmark victory over the favored Canadians at their own game, on their own ice, may come to be remembered as a sea change in Olympic hockey.

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Thirty years ago one of the most defining moments in US Olympic histoy happened:

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TotalSports.com looks at 25 female olympians to watch...

Julia Mancuso, USA, Alpine Skiing

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With the Winter Olympics here we look at the 21 year-old Finnish figure skater:

 

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From USA Today...

Jamaica's bid to have its bobsled team compete in this month's Olympics has come up short.

The list of nations who qualified and entered bobsled events at the Vancouver Games, obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press, failed to include Jamaica — which had spent the last few weeks hoping that a slot opened in the field.

Those hopes were dashed, and on Wednesday, the Jamaicans acknowledged that all chance for 2010 was gone.

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from the LA Times...

That Rio won the 2016 Summer Games is easily understandable.

The International Olympic Committee fancies itself a force in global affairs. As in the case of breaking Olympic ground by giving the 2008 Olympics to China, the world's most populous country, Friday's vote was a chance for the IOC to say that by giving the Olympics to South America for the first time it will have aided the development of Brazil, the most populous country on the continent.

That Chicago was eliminated in the first round, as shocking as it seemed, also was surprisingly understandable, given the IOC's byzantine internal politics, its fractious relationship with the country whose companies have been its cash cow and the way the host-city election system is structured.

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Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps returned to the pool on Sunday at the Charlotte UltraSwim, but he was far from golden. Phelps ended up winning two of the five events he entered at the UltraSwim in his first real competition since the 2008 Beijing Olympics last August, when he won a staggering eight gold medals in eight attempts.

“For my first meet back, I have no complaints,” Phelps told the Charlotte Observer.

Phelps was returning from a three-month ban after pictures of him smoking marijuana out of a bong surfaced in February.

 

Last week it was Baltimore adult entertainer Theresa White that came out with some new revelation's about America's Golden Boy, including a threesome with her and a friend.

According to the stripper Phelps' staminia is as good in the pool as it is in the bed.

"The sex lasted for about three hours. Michael should get another Olympic gold for marathon love-making!"

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Michael Phelps first swim... 

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From Jay Mariotti, Chicago-Sun Times:

Briefly, I weighed the possibility, recognizing that the current team is loaded 1 thru 12 with gifted stars in their prime, right down to final pieces Tayshaun Prince and Michael Redd. The Dream Team, remember, had a retired Magic Johnson and an old Larry Bird and had the feel of a traveling museum -- or, in Charles Barkley's case, a nightly party in Las Ramblas. Also, the Redeem Team is playing markedly better compe tition in a world that improved enough to catch up to the Americans, then beat them down.

But, please. In the Jordan vs. Kobe matchup, take MJ's scoring, defense and clinically insane competitiveness every time. And if James looks like the Incredible Hulk and plays like a Hummer rambling at 100 mph, I'd like to see him deal with Scottie Pippen's Doberman act. Karl Malone would create a mismatch at power forward. Wade is a force off the bench, but so was Clyde Drexler. Inside, I like the fury of Patrick Ewing and finesse of David Robinson over Dwight Howard and Chris Bosh. We never saw the best of the Dream Team because the mode was cruise control. We've seen the best of the Redeem Team. And so far, it's damned good. "For 40 minutes, it's nonstop movement and chaos,"Chris Paul said. "That’s what we try to do. We wreak havoc."

In the end, Jordan would hang 16 in the fourth quarter and the Dreamers would win by eight points.

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From the Spoiler.com:

In a thoroughly well-timed move, the latest German edition of Playboy will be released tomorrow with a feature showcasing the four sexiest athletes to ever represent the nation.  

Petra Niemann is competing in her third Olympiad, and sailing is her game. “I’ve been working hard with my psychologist,” she told Playboy, as if to suggest this had something to do with sport or being naked.

Kayaker Nicole Reinhardt is one of Germany’s best hopes for gold in Beijing, and is grateful that her sport is about technique, so the “dickere und kräftigere” (”butch”) ladies have nothing on her svelte frame.

Romy Tarangul, just 20-years-old, has sadly been eliminated from the Judo competition already. Tsk.

Katharina Scholz is a field hockey starlet, and also a WAG of ex-national hockey captain Oliver Hentschel. She isn’t the first German from her discipline to pose in the buff for the popular magazine - the hilariously-named Fanny Rinne also did so prior to the Athens Olympiad.

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