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Sun. & Mon. 6am-3pm; Tues., Thurs. & Sat. 6am-8pm; Fri. 6am-9pm Page 2 – WATERTOWN DAILY TIMES – WINTER OlympiCS – Thursday, February 8, 2018 Ole Einar Jessica Bjørndalen Diggins Bryan Fletcher BIATHLON: Perhaps the most historic Winter Olympic sport is the biathlon, which is a combination of cross country ski racing and rifle shooting. The challenge facing a biathlete is being able to shoot accurately after an enduring ski workout. The U.S. continues to improve in biathlon but this sport belongs to the European countries like Sweden, Norway, France, Germany and Finland. Norway’s Ole Einar Bjørndalen has won more medals than any Winter Olympian, period. Dates: Feb. 10-12, 14-15, 17-18, 20, 22-23 NORDIC COMBINED: Another Olympic sport that’s been featured in every Winter Olympic Games is Nordic combined. The sport is exactly what its name implies and that is a combination of cross county, or Nordic skiing, and ski jumping. Norway has dominated this sports since the early days, including sweeping the medals in the first four Winter Olympics, and continues to have success. At Sochi in 2014 Germany’s Eric Frenzel won gold. For Team USA, Bryan Fletcher’s heartwarming story of going from childhood cancer survivor to Olympian is one for the ages. This will be his second trip to the Olympics as Fletcher was also in Sochi in 2014. Dates: Feb. 14, 20, 22 CROSS COUNTRY: An original Winter Olympics sport, cross-country skiing has been part of the games since their inception in 1924 at Chamonix, France. Women’s events began in 1952. At Sochi in 2014 the Scandinavian countries — Norway, Sweden and Finland — cleaned up with Norway winning 11 medals, including five gold medals. The U.S. women’s team could pull a few surprises. Jessie Diggins won a silver medal and Kikkan Randall won bronze at the 2017 Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti, Finland, a first for Team USA. Dates: Feb. 10-11, 13, 15-18, 21, 24-25 PROFILED He “sort of” retired after winning There is not another Olympian at gold in pursuit at Sochi in 2014, being OLE EINAR Pyeongchang who will be as decorated elected to a position with the IOC. BJØRNDALEN as Norway’s Ole Einar Bjørndalen. But he resigned to begin training for Known as “The King of Biathlon,” what will be his sixth trip to the Winter Bjørndalen will be 44 years old by the Olympic Games where no one will be time he straps on his skis and throws surprised if he helps Norway continue a gun over his shoulder to compete in its biathlon success and makes yet the Olympic biathlon events. another trip to the podium. Bjørndalen has 13 Olympic medals, Full Name: Ole Einar Bjørndalen including eight gold. Among them are Born: Jan. 27, 1974 four he won in 2002 at Salt Lake City Hometown: Drammen, Norway when he won gold medals in all four disciplines (individual, sprint, pursuit Sport: Biathlon/cross country skiing and relay) that were contested at that Achievements: Eight Olympic gold time. medals; 20 World Cup gold medals; six World Cup titles 682 E. Wisconsin Ave. Oconomowoc, WI 53066 TWO SIDED MATTRESSES (262) 567-4873 APPLIANCE & MATTRESS www.radtkeappliance.com Thursday, February 8, 2018 – WINTER OLYMPICS – WATERTOWN DAILY TIMES – Page 3 Mikaela Shiffrin Alpine skiing and its various disciplines — slalom, giant slalom, super giant slalom (Super G), combined, and downhill — remains one of the more popular winter Olympic sports. Since its debut in 1936 the number of events for both men and women has continued to grow. Alpine skiing has seen its finest competitors come from European countries as well as the U.S. Austria holds the record with 114 medals, including nine at Sochi in 2014. The U.S. team is pinning some of its hopes on Mikaela Shiffrin, who when just 18 became the youngest slalom champion in Olympic history at Sochi, an honor she holds as world champion as Justine well. Lyndsey Vonn is set to return after missing Sochi in 2014. Dufour- Meanwhile, six-time Olympic medalist Bode Miller will return to the Lapointe Olympics, but this time he’ll be an analyst for NBC. Dates: Feb. 11-15, 17-18, 21-24 Take downhill skiing and add some sports made up of young, daring athletes. For the U.S. team, David Wise acrobatics to it and you’ve got freestyle hopes to return to defend his 2014 gold medal in the men’s halfpipe. skiing. Disciplines include aerials, moguls, An interesting storyline that could develop in Pyeongchang is the cross, slopestyle and halfpipe. All are competition between Canada’s Dufour-Lapointe sisters (Maxime, Chloe fairly new Olympic events, with halfpipe and and Justine) who all compete in the moguls. Justine, the youngest at slopestyle being introduced in 2014. age 24, took home a gold medal at Sochi while Chloe grabbed the No doubt, the popularity of the X Games has silver medal. Team Canada sure would love to see the sisters sweep contributed to the surge in popularity in these the podium. Turn To The Roofi ng Experts. Locally Owned ® Asphalt ® Free Estimates ® Cedar ® New Construction ® Rubber ® Tear Off & Repairs ® Metal ® Fully Insured www.abroofi ng.net • 920.390.2500 Page 4 – WATERTOWN DAILY TIMES – WINTER OlympiCS – Thursday, February 8, 2018 Perhaps the true modern icon of the Winter Olympics is the bobsled, or bobsleigh, LUGE which is one of the most popular Olympic sports and one of the final medals awarded in the four-man event where sledders reach speeds of 85 mph. Germany, Switzerland and the U.S. own the most medals in this sport but Chris Mazdzer the spotlight in these What is called “the fastest sport on ice,” luge involves athletes laying games could shift to on their backs on a sled that can go 90 mph. Germany swept the gold Canada and Kaillie medals in all four events at Sochi in 2014. Humphries who seeks a three-peat in the Team USA has its hopes pinned high on a pair of northeastern racers in women’s event, which the men’s singles event in the form of Chris Mazdzer and Tucker West, as could also see a team well as Erin Hamlin of the women’s team. from Nigeria compete. West may have the most interesting story of any Olympian in that he Dates: Feb. 18-21, grew up practicing luge on a 700-foot backyard track his father built for 24-25 him with lights and a PA system. Kaillie Humphries Dates: Feb. 10-15 No brakes, head first and on their bellies, skeleton athletes are a daring bunch in a sport that reminds one of riding a rail sled as a kid. SKELETON Skeleton was part of the first Olympics in 1924 and would not be contested again until 1948. It would endure another long drought until it resurfaced in Salt Lake City in 2002. Matthew For the men’s team, 2014 bronze medalist Matthew Antoine returns while the women’s team includes Katie Uhlaender, who finished Antoine fourth at Sochi, behind Russian Elena Nikitina who has been cited for doping. Dates: Feb. 15-17 PROFILED Kaillie Humphries When Canada’s Kaillie Humphries won a gold in part, to Humphries’ participation in such events. medal in the two-woman bobsleigh event at the One can only wonder how long it will be before Sochi Olympics in 2014, she became the first these are included in what is certainly one of the female bobsledder to defend an Olympic title. most popular Winter Olympics sports. For now, Now she’s going for a three-peat as she heads to Humphries will try to pilot her way to triple-gold. Pyeongchang. As a women’s bobsledder, Humphries has Full Name: Kaillie Humphries accomplished a lot. Not only has she won her share Born: Sept. 4, 1985 of competitions and medals but she’s helped take Hometown: Sendai, Calgary, Alberta her sport into new territory. Sport: Bobsleigh Four-person (mixed-gender) bobsledding, where Achievements: Olympic gold medal, 2010, 2014; men and women compete with and against each World Championship Gold 2012, 2013 other, is catching on outside the Olympics thanks, We are your one-stop tire shop, slide in and roll out! FREE MOUNT, BALANCE & LIFETIME ROTATE with purchase of any (4) tires. TIRE-RIFIK WE WILL 200 South Second Street, Watertown, WI MEET OR BEAT ANY COMPETITORʼS 920-261-8111 PRICE! Many sizes & models available. Call for pricing! 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