“Skiing” on The Daily Caller

Lindsey Vonn remembers being a 9-year-old wannabe Olympian, waiting in line for hours on end to shake the hand of a medal-winning skier and get an autograph. (more)

Lindsey Vonn is still going full speed. (more)

LOS ANGELES — Lindsey Vonn is going from Olympic gold medalist to “Law & Order” TV actress. (more)

In the Olympic medal count, Sweden does OK for a country of its small size. But in the days of old, it consistently ranked at the top. What accounts for the downtrend? A big factor must be taxes. (more)

WHISTLER, British Columbia — The downhill portion of the women’s super combined Thursday morning might have looked a lot like Wednesday’s women’s downhill, with Lindsey Vonn in first place and her teammate Julia Mancuso not far behind in third. But in the slalom portion, everything turned around. Vonn ran into a gate and crashed, while her main rival, Maria Riesch of Germany, skied a dominating run and grabbed the gold medal. (more)

VANCOUVER—Yesterday I went downtown to the Robson Square Celebration Site (Is that like Berkeley’s free-speech zone such that you can’t celebrate anywhere else?) to see if I could pick up a hockey ticket. I love using scalpers: no waiting in line at the official box office, no Ticketmaster “service” charge, nothing but negotiating price mano-a-mano. I’m not sure how legal it is here—government does try to stamp out economic intercourse between consenting adults—but dozens of them are out in the open wearing laminated signs, so I assume they’re at least tolerated. Good for Vancouver: Scalpers make the ticket marketplace go round, ensuring efficient pricing and distribution. (more)

(CNN) — Lindsey Vonn of the United States lived up to her billing as the golden girl of the Winter Olympics with a dominant victory in the women’s downhill at Whistler Creek on Wednesday. (more)

Marjan Kalhor knows she has no chance of winning a gold medal in next week’s women’s slalom but before she even steps out of the gate she has already claimed a first place. (more)

Every time the Olympics roll around, some of the toned, horny athletes get nakey for one publication or another. This year, People talked to snowboarder Lindsey Jacobellis and alpine skier Lindsey Vonn about taking it off. Jacobellis says, “I get way too many little girls who are crazy about snowboarding coming up to me, asking for autographs and advice, and I want to stay a strong role model for them.” Meanwhile, Vonn was one of the four Olympians who posed for this month’s Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue (above) and said, “I talked about it with my husband, and I looked at what other athletes had done in the past, I’m trying as best as I can to promote our sport and make it mainstream.” I don’t blame hot-bodied athletes for taking it off—I’d be naked all the time if I looked like some of them—but saying you’re getting naked to make alpine skiing more mainstream is some major BS. (more)

Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) — Didier Defago of Switzerland won the Olympic men’s downhill ski race, while American Bode Miller rebounded from his 0-for-5 performance at the 2006 Winter Games in Turin with a bronze medal. (more)

A look at some of the Olympic moments from over the weekend. (more)

This week, NBC will begin round-the-clock coverage on multiple network platforms that will bring winter Olympic fans more in-depth coverage of the Vancouver Games than there was for any other Winter Games in history. The Games are yet another example of how important multiple networks and broadband platforms are to presenting major events. (more)

For television giant NBC Universal, the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada, is shaping up to be a bumpy downhill ride. (more)

TELLURIDE, Colo. (AP) — A California woman died in a Colorado heli-skiing accident after she fell into a creek and apparently drowned when her helmet got stuck between two rocks. (more)

OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Tom Wallisch won the freeski slopestyle finals Sunday at the Dew Tour event at Snowbasin Resort, putting him in position to win the overall title heading to the final meet of the season. (more)

SALT LAKE CITY — A thick layer of smog stubbornly lingering over parts of Utah has fouled the state’s air so badly this week that health officials warned people not to exercise outside and some schools kept children inside for recess and sports. (more)

NEW YORK (AP) — NBC will spread 835 hours of coverage of the Vancouver Olympics over five networks and its Olympic Web site, all of it in high definition. (more)

WENGEN, Switzerland (AP) — Swiss ski star Lara Gut will miss the Vancouver Olympics after failing to recover from a dislocated right hip. (more)

Lindsey Vonn says Austrian coaches have apologized to her for suggesting she had an edge over other skiers because of her weight. (more)