Push Comes to Shove As Former Track Stars Eye Bobsleigh Glory
SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 2014 SPORTS Winter Games a family affair for athletes VIENNA: Sibling rivals, dynasties of champi- Lake Placid and bronze four years later in Sochi, while their sister Allison has skated for won two silvers and one bronze in luge sin- Austria’s Marlies and Bernadette Schild, ons or coaching parents: the Olympic com- Sarajevo. The Kostelic siblings of Croatia- Georgia and now Israel at international level. gles between 1992 and 2002 and is also his German double Olympic champion Maria munity likes to style itself as one big family... Janica and Ivica-have accumulated nine In biathlon, Russia’s Anastazia Kuzmina and manager. Even when they’re not racing, Hoefl-Riesch and her sister Susanne, and and in winter sports, that’s quite often literal- Olympic medals, including four gold, since her brother Anton Shipulin took part in sepa- uncles, dads and other relatives are often Italian siblings Manfred and Manuela ly the case. In disciplines like alpine skiing, 2002. In Turin, she won gold in the women’s rate races in Vancouver in 2010 but still took part of the all-important entourage back- Moelgg. French nordic combined star Jason passed on from one generation to the next combined and he won silver in the men’s home a full set of medals. Olympic genes are stage. Yves Hamelin, head of Canada’s short Lamy-Chappuis, an Olympic and world in remote valleys in Switzerland or Austria, race. Siblings competing together are not an especially strong in some families. Super-G track speed skating program, led his athletes champion, has a cousin, Ronan, in ski jump- there is no shortage of racing dynasties.
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