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The Olympics: Day 6
by Anna Johns, posted Feb 15th 2006 12:14PM
One of the athletes to watch tonight is not an American. It's
Croatian Alpine Skier Janica Kostelic, who won four gold medals in her sport in Salt Lake City. Her brother, Ivica, won
the silver medal in the slalom last night. Americans Julie Mancuso and Lindsey Kildow, who was injured during a training
run earlier this week, are also in medal contention.There are some Americans to watch, too. Apolo Anton Ohno races in the 1000m speed skate and hopefully he'll be able to stay on his feet for this one. Also, gorgeous Jeremy Bloom (seriously, girls, look at him) competes in the moguls.
Here's tonight's line-up on all of NBC's stations:
Olympians have a mini-movie on NBC
by Anna Johns, posted Jan 7th 2006 8:30AM
I
am a total sucker for the Olympics, but I really hate all the cheesy, promotional crap that goes with it. This time
around, NBC and Chevrolet are teaming up to feature some camera-friendly Olympians in their very own mini-movie. Oh,
joy. It airs during Las Vegas on NBC in February and it'll also be included with advertisements before the
trailers start at AMC, Cinemark, Regal, UA and Edwards movie theaters. Now, I clearly remember the little mini-movie
that Chevrolet did during the last summer Olympics where a bunch of athletes call each other and drive their own
Chevrolets to Athens (way to carpool, guys). I wanted to throw something at the movie screen everytime I saw it. Why?
As a general rule, athletes can't act. You hear that, advertising geniuses? Athletes. Cannot. Act. This time around,
the lucky Olympians are halfpipe snowboarders Kelly Clark and Ross Powers, alpine skiers Eric Schlopy, Ted Ligety, and
Julia Mancuso, freestyle skier Toby Dawson and snowboarder Seth Wescott. They're all somehow paired up with the cast of
Las Vegas and then whisked off to Torino, Italy for the competition. There will also be a behind-the-scenes
mini-mini-movie of the mini-movie on NBC's website.TV Squad Hot Topics
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