Skiing News October 2006

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MONDAY, 30 OCTOBER 2006
	Sweden, Norway Win Team Sprints in GER
	DUSSELDORF, Germany - Sweden's men and Norway's women won the first cross country team sprint of the new World Cup season Sunday before a large and wildly cheering throng. No U.S. racers competed. Olympic sprint champion Bjoern Lind and Peter Larsson took command late in the six-lap men's race, six times around a 1.5K course on machinemade snow along the Rhine River, and edged Norwegians Read Full Story
FRIDAY, 27 OCTOBER 2006
	VANOC Update on Event Venues
	The Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC) has released a report dated October 25 stating that it is on schedule in terms of completing the venues of the games. Below are the completion dates of the Olympic and Paralympic venues: Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Venues UBC ice hockey arena Richmond Speed Skating Oval Whistler O Read Full Story
THURSDAY, 26 OCTOBER 2006
	2010 Games Expenditures, Construction on Track
	Revenues are up, expenditures are on target and venue construction is on schedule according to the 2005/06 Annual Report released today by the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (VANOC). The Annual Report includes the management discussion and analysis and financial statements for the fiscal year ending July 31, 2006. The VANOC Annual Report fo Read Full Story
	Rain, High Temps Cancel Soelden Openers
	SOELDEN, Austria - Rain through the night and into mid-morning, coupled with a weather forecast for unseasonally warm temperatures, forced World Cup organizers Tuesday to cancel what had been scheduled as the season-opening alpine races next weekend on the Rettenbach Glacier. The women were to have raced giant slalom Saturday with 10 U.S. women scheduled to compete in the first race of th Read Full Story
TUESDAY, 24 OCTOBER 2006
	Hitchcock Wins Soelden Trial; 10 to Race
	SOELDEN, Austria - Katie Hitchcock (Sacramento, CA) led a time trial Monday and will get to make her first World Cup giant slalom start in the season-opening GS on the Rettenbach Glacier, one of 10 U.S. women in the field. "I don't know what to say. I just gave it everything," a grinning Hitchcock said after posting the best-two-of-three runs. She made her World Cup debut in Maribor, Slov Read Full Story