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Ladies First – At Last.

One of the reasons it took women so long to be accepted as competitors in the Olympic Games was the view that they should only engage ‘in restrained and non-violent’ exercises to protect their ‘peculiar function of multiplying the species.’

Gold Lightening Strikes Twice

Incredibly the Winter Olympics witnessed its first ever tie the other night. The Alpine Skiing event saw Tina Maze of Slovenia and Dominique Gisin of Switzerland both complete the course in 1 minute 41.57 seconds on wednesday. The two friends

It’s All Downhill

Sometimes you know its just not your day, well if you have ever felt like that imagine how US Bobsledder Johnny Quinn feels. Quinn successfully was selected for the Winter Olympics as part of the US Bobsled team, but he

Striking Gold Given a New Meaning in Sochi

The Winter Olympics are now underway in Sochi, but there will be ten commemorative medals which will be extra special. Ten medals have reportedly been embedded with fragments from a meteor that hit the city of Chelyabinsk in Russia’s southern

Out of Puck

The USA Ice Hockey team in Sochi will have an added incentive to perform, after their team manager David Poile was hospitalised on Friday in a freak accident, just three days before the team was due to leave for Russia.