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Katie Uhlaender of Breckenridge wins skeleton silver medal
Altenberg :: Germany | 5 months ago
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Germany Katie Uhlaender kicked off the new year with a silver-medal performance at a World Cup skeleton event Friday. The Breckenridge resident finished just 0.01 seconds shy of gold in second place, while Noelle Pikus-Pace of Utah moved up in the
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Orange prize for fiction 2012 longlist - in pictures
Stockholm :: Sweden | over 1 year ago
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Call the main Guardian and Observer switchboard: +44 (0)20 3353 2000 1 / 20 Island of Wings by Karin Altenberg (Quercus) In the summer of 1830, a minister and his wife set out to bring Christianity and modernity to the desperately poor and isolated
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Austrian brothers win luge doubles world title
Altenberg :: Germany | over 1 year ago
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Germany (AP) — Austrian brothers Andreas and Wolfgang Linger successfully defended their luge doubles title at the world championships on Friday, their third gold in the annual event. They clocked a combined time of one minute 23.
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Injured Canadian bobsledders released from hospital
Calgary :: Canada | over 1 year ago
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Globe and Mail Update Published Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012 5:59PM EST Canada's bobsleigh athletes that were involved in a serious crash last week during four-man training in Altenberg Germany, have been released from hospitals in Germany and have either
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Two injured bobsledders out of hospital
Calgary :: Canada | over 1 year ago
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Two members of Canada's bobsled team injured in a training accident on Jan. 5 were released from a German hospital on Wednesday and will be returning to Canada soon. Bill Thomas and Graeme Rinholm suffered injuries when their bobsled crashed during a
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Canadians pull out of Altenberg bobsled World Cup
Toronto :: Canada | over 1 year ago
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Canada has withdrawn its bobsled team from this weekend's World Cup stop in Altenberg, Germany, citing safety concerns on the track. The move comes one day after one of its bobsledders was airlifted and two others also were
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Canadian bobsleigher set for hospital release
Berlin :: Germany | over 1 year ago
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One of the three Canadian bobsleighers injured in a high speed training crash on Thursday is due to be released from hospital on Friday, a source close to the Canadian team reported. Pilot Chris Spring and two of his teammates had to be airlifted
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Aussie Olympic bobsleigh pilot badly injured
Toronto :: Canada | over 1 year ago
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Australian Olympic bobsleigh representative Christopher Spring had emergency surgery Thursday to remove a piece of wood from his buttocks after a high-speed crash during training in Altenberg, Germany. Spring, 27, who now races for Canada, lost a lot
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3 Canadian bobsledders injured in crash
Frankfurt :: Germany | over 1 year ago
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Germany (AP) — The head coach of the Canadian bobsledding team says three athletes have been hospitalized in Germany after their sled slammed into the roof of the track during a training run. Thursday's crash took place as the
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Island of Wings, By Karin Altenberg
London :: United Kingdom | 2 years ago
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From Chinua Achebe to Peter Carey and beyond, the ambiguous character of the missionary committed to spreading Christianity and education, but often a self-deceiving dupe has recurred in the fiction of empire and its aftermath. As well as preaching
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