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Kim Yu-Kim isn't perfect, but she still wins Skate America title

On the other hand, the weakness the prohibitive Olympic gold medal favorite showed three months before the Winter Games in Vancouver, B.C., didn't matter all that much. Despite the flubs, the nerves, the uncustomary fall and the bad day all around, she ...

From AMY SHIPLEY, The Washington Post,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Skate America,  Rachael Flatt,  Emily Hughes,  Sasha Cohen

S. Korea's Kim Yu-Na exceeds hype, sets new scoring record at Skate America

Kim Yu-Na, 19, has spent the past four years firing up enormous expectations, and Saturday night she showed how close she is to meeting them. She obliterated the competition in the women's short program at Skate America, setting a new world record for ...

From AMY SHIPLEY, The Washington Post,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Skate America,  James Bond,  Roger Moore,  Michelle Kwan,  Evan Lysacek

Shen, Hongbo still look golden

LAKE PLACID, N.Y. -- The look, every bit of it, qualified as dramatically different. Known for his traditional shirt-and-pant costumes, U.S. skater Evan Lysacek took the ice Friday in an all-black Vera Wang number that included wrapped, tissue-like ...

From AMY SHIPLEY, The Washington Post,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Evan Lysacek,  Vera Wang,  Skate America

Assessing the damage: Michael Phelps goes 2 for 5

STOCKHOLM -- At last year's Olympic Games, Michael Phelps won eight gold medals in eight races. At this summer's world championships, he took five golds and one silver in six races. At a two-day FINA/Arena World Cup that ended here Wednesday, Phelps ...

From AMY SHIPLEY, The Washington Post,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Michael Phelps

Michael Phelps has sub-standard performance at FINA/Arena World Cup in Sweden

Three months after winning five gold medals at the world championships in Rome, Phelps, 24, found himself in the midst of the worst morning of his professional swimming career, and he didn't care to see his entire workday end at just past noon. "Coming ...

From AMY SHIPLEY, The Washington Post,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Michael Phelps

From water baby to phenom

D.A. Franklin grew up afraid of the water, so she wanted to make sure her only child overcame that anxiety early. Without any more thought than that, she signed up for "Mommy and Me" swim lessons when Melissa Franklin was 6 months old. That's when ...

From AMY SHIPLEY, The Washington Post,  4 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Michael Phelps,  Ryan Lochte

At 20th anniversary meeting, Knight Commission voices concerns over costs

MIAMI -- University presidents worry that increasing expenses at big-time college football and basketball schools are threatening the financial health of college sports, but they say they feel powerless to control the spiraling costs, according to a ...

From AMY SHIPLEY, The Washington Post,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: National Collegiate Athletic Association,  Southern Methodist University,  Bowl Championship Series

Big second half lifts Saints over Dolphins

New Orleans, which had already scored 40 points three times this season, outdid itself, putting 43 on the scoreboard in the final 31 minutes to overcome a 21-point deficit. The 46-34 victory over the Miami Dolphins left the crowd of more than 66,000 ...

From AMY SHIPLEY, The Washington Post,  25 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Miami Dolphins,  Drew Brees,  Sean Payton,  Mike Bell,  Tracy Porter

Paralympian swimmer Johannes targets London in 2012

The officials kept asking the same questions, and the Johanneses kept shaking their heads. Why do you want an "imperfect" child, the officials wanted to know. Are you going to sell her body parts for research? It was impossible for the Johanneses to ...

From AMY SHIPLEY, The Washington Post,  20 Oct 2009

After Chicago's Failure, Movement Is Afoot to Change USOC

Blame for Chicago's embarrassing defeat in last week's election in Copenhagen for the 2016 Summer Games continued to descend on the U.S. Olympic Committee leadership Wednesday as more than three dozen U.S. sport governing officials called for the ...

From AMY SHIPLEY, The Washington Post,  8 Oct 2009

Related Topics: US Olympic Committee,  Larry Probst,  Dick Ebersol,  International Olympic Committee,  Peter Ueberroth

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