Sochi 2014
The 15km classic cross country will be held at Laura Cross Country Centre on the 14th February at 14.00 hrs. In the individual race, the skiers start at 30-second intervals, and the competitor who covers the distance in the shortest time wins. Participants start in reverse order to their ranking for the season, meaning the athletes ranked highest start last. […]
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The sport of skeleton originates from athletes that descended down the mountains in a toboggan — a wooden sleigh without runners common among Canadian Indians. Luge’s emergence is referenced in literature from the 16th century. Information about luge as a sport dates back to the mid-19th century, when British tourists in the Swiss Alps started going down the snow-covered slopes on a sled. Skeleton has twice been included
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Ireland’s Seamus O’Connor came close to making the snowboard halfpipe final at the Winter Olympics in Sochi. He posted a score of 54.00 in the first run in the semi-finals, enough for fourth overall at that stage with the top six advancing to the final. But he couldn’t improve on his score in the second run
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Congratulations to Team Ireland’s Seamus O’Connor who has qualified for the semi-final of the halfpipe at the Winter Olympics in Sochi. O’Connor finished eighth in the first heat after opening with a solid 66.25 in his first run at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park, before impressing the judges in his second run, where he scored 71.50. The
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The Men’s half-pipe will take place this afternoon at the Rosa Khutor Extreme Park from 2pm Sochi time. Click here to check out the list of athletes including Ireland’s Seamus O’Connor, who will be competing in the qualification for semi final/final. Picture: William Cherry http://www.sochi2014.com/en/snowboard-men-s-hp-qualification
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Jan Rossiter will fulfill his Olympic dream on February 14th at the Laura Cross Country Centre when he competes in the 15km Classic Cross Country event for Team Ireland. The Laura Centre has a capacity crowd of 7,500 with circuits that drop 80 metres relative to the stadium. Its 1450 metres above sea level and
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Official practice for Sean Greenwood this morning at the Sanki Sliding Centre. He has two runs 11.20am and 12.20am. With coach Jeff Pain (Canadian Olympic Silver Medallist Turin 2006) , Sean continues to analyse the track and prepare race plans for the men’s skeleton event on February 14/15 . The Sanki Sliding centres highest point
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Snowboard half-pipe is next up for Seamus O’Connor and Team Ireland. The qualification for half-pipe will be held on February 11th, at 2pm, semi finals at 7.30pm and finals 9.30pm. Snowboarding made Olympic debut in 1998 at the Nagano Winter Olympics. Also featured in the program were the giant slalom and the halfpipe. The parallel
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Seamus O’Connor speaking just after his run this morning.
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Ireland’s Seamus O’Connor had two great runs this morning in the Olympic Slopestyle Semi Final in Rosa Khutor Extreme Park. His best score of 70.25 placed him 9th of the 21 semi final athletes. See Seamus’s run here. American Sage Kotsenburg stormed to gold in the first-ever snowboard slopestyle event at the games in Sochi.
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This evening Friday 7th February millions of people all over the world will be able to witness the XXII Olympic Games Opening Ceremony. Team Ireland will be 29th in the parade of the 88 Nations taking part. Greece will enter first and the host Nation Russia will be last to enter the Fisht Stadium.
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