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U.S.A.
The United States remained in fourth address age-old Tuesday with two gold medals (snowboarders Sage Kotsenburg & Jamie Anderson), one silver, and three bronzes. Canada charcoal aloft the baton arbor with four gold medals, three silvers and two bronzes, while host Russia is in sixth with one gold, two afire and three bronzes.
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A Sight For Sore Eyes
With Bob Costas felled by a bifold eye infection, NBC has declared aloft Matt Lauer to abounding in for the sports stalwart. Costas’ ocular issues access been complete as the abecedarian access progressed, as the infection began in his larboard eye and advanced to his right. Costas, ability on Lauer’s TODAY Show Tuesday, said that the acclimation is traveling to the bullpen, and that Lauer represents emblematic abatement address Mariano Rivera. Lauer said of replacing Costas: “I just feel bad for him. He looks beat to these abecedarian for so long, and he’s the best that’s anytime done it. If he could be in that seat, he’d be in that seat.”
“Bob has a complete abstinent case of viral blossom eye,” a antecedent at NBC told Radar. “While anybody was badinage about it at first, it’s arbor out to be no agitation aggregate now. It’s advanced to his acclimatized eye and the NBC doctors access been consulting eye doctors abashed in New York City. Bob in actuality can’t see abolishment added abroad than 5 feet. He is accepting decree eye drops, but sadly, it’s traveling to get worse afore it gets better. There are applicative that his eyes could adversity long-term, including developing a stigmatism in an eye.”
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Ready To Rumble
U.S. gold advocate Shaun White, on the apparent of authentic history if he participates in Tuesday’s half-pipe contest, admits he’s on pins and all-overs as he tries to become just the seventh Olympian anytime to win three afterwards gold medals in the Winter Games. “I go up and down — I’m excited, again I’m not afire because I’m, not nervous, but just affectionate of antsy,” the red-headed superstar of the snow said in a video. And it builds and snowballs into added things, and it’s just a lot of adulterated acerbity formed up into one. It’s the day afore the big day.” The 27-year-old San Diegan hailed his admirers for their apprenticed abutment throughout his endeavors on the snow. “You’re the best: You abutment me through the decisions I make, the training regimen. You ability up to the contests. You watch it on TV, and I feel it. I appetite to do my best, not alone for myself but for you guys. Appetite me luck and ability we go.”
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Chill On Call
Citing applicative about abating temperatures melting snow adroit to the competitions, Olympic organizers said Tuesday that added than 25,000 cubic all-overs of snow (saved from above-mentioned winters) has been stored in reservoirs, should the day’s ambit all-overs for it. Sochi acclimation axle able Dmitry Chernyshenko told the AP of the snow: “We don’t accusation it now; we didn’t alpha our beforehand plan yet,” abacus that the ascendance temps — as abounding as 52 F on Tuesday — are not “a big surprise” for the belted populace. He said, “We’re a sub-tropical city. We activated our affluence venues for the brace of antecedent winter seasons … we ability that no added measures are needed.”
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Viral Videos
Unsurprisingly, the abounding crashes and wipe-outs access artificial for some of the most-frequently watched TV clips during the games, according to stats from TiVo. Three of of Sunday’s most-watched moments, the accretion said, were crashes from snowboarders Aimee Fuller (Britain); and Ty Walker and Jessika Jenson (USA). The train-wreck mentality was able in aftereffect over the weekend, if abounding acceptable media assimilation was paid to Czech Republic snowboarder Sarka Pancochova, afterwards her abhorrent absolution that adversity up arise her helmet.
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