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PARK CITY, Utah (Jan. 16) - Six-time nordic combined World Cup winner Todd Lodwick (Steamboat Springs, CO) and former sprint world champion Johnny Spillane (Steamboat Springs, CO) were named Monday to the 2006 Olympic Team for the Winter Games next month in Torino, Italy. Four of the six combiners and three of the five jumpers have been to previous Olympics.
Bill Marolt, president and CEO of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association, announced the teams, the first of six to be named for the Olympics Feb. 10-26 in Torino. All Olympic nominations submitted by the U.S. Ski Team and U.S. Snowboarding are subject to the approval of the U.S. Olympic Committee.
Lodwick, in his 13th season with the U.S. Ski Team, will be competing in his fourth Olympics, only the second nordic combined skier in U.S. history to accomplish that feat (Mike Devecka, 1968-80). Johnson, the son of former U.S. Jumping Program Director Alan Johnson, will be 16 years and seven months old during the Olympics; the youngest mark was set by then-Andrea Mead, who was 15 years and nine months during the 1948 Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland.
The Olympic Nordic Combined Team (with previous Olympics): Brett Camerota, 21, Park City, Utah Eric Camerota, 21, Park City, Utah Bill Demong, 25, Vermontville, N.Y. (1998, 2002) Todd Lodwick, 29, Steamboat Springs, Colo. (1994, '98, 2002) Johnny Spillane, 25, Steamboat Springs, Colo. (2002) Carl Van Loan, 25, Webster, N.H. (2002)
The Olympic Ski Jumping Team: Alan Alborn, 25, Anchorage, Alaska (1998, 2002) Jim Denney, 22, Duluth, Minn. Anders Johnson, 16, Park City, Utah Clint Jones, 21, Steamboat Springs, Colo. (2002) Tommy Schwall, 22, Steamboat Springs, Colo. (2002)
"This team includes top international skiers - Todd's won a half-dozen World Cup events, Johnny's a former world champion, Billy is a World Cup winner, and Alan holds the U.S. distance mark in jumping," said Luke Bodensteiner, U.S. nordic director. "And now we've added some young skiers into this team who are extremely driven to make their contribution in Torino. This is an exciting mix."
The U.S. Championships for both nordic combined and jumping will held Friday and Saturday, Jan. 20-21, in Steamboat Springs as part of USSA's 10 Weeks to Torino series of major pre-Olympic competitions. After some down time to relax, the two Olympic squads will head to Europe for final pre-Olympic training camps. The nordic combined team will arrive in Torino Feb. 6 and ski jumpers will arrive Feb. 8.
PARK CITY, Utah (Jan. 17) - Kris Freeman (Andover, NH), who has posted the best U.S. cross country skiing results since the Bill Koch era two decades ago, and three-time Olympian Carl Swenson (Park City, UT) headline a group of 17 cross country skiers named Tuesday to the 2006 U.S. Olympic Team.
Bill Marolt, president and CEO of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association, the national governing body for Olympic skiing and snowboarding, said the team will include 10 men and seven women. Five of the men and three of the women were on the 2002 Olympic Team. All Olympic nominations submitted by the U.S. Ski Team and U.S. Snowboarding are subject to the approval of the U.S. Olympic Committee.
Freeman, a diabetic who self-injects insulin six or eight times a day, is a former University of Vermont skier who won the first Under-23 championship in Italy in 2003, finished fourth in the World Championships two weeks later, and since then has produced a pair of top-6 results. Swenson, a Dartmouth College graduate, anchored the men's relay team, which finished a U.S.-record fifth at the 2002 Olympics and was fifth a year later in the 50K freestyle race at the World Championships.
The 2006 U.S. Olympic Cross Country Team (previous Olympic experience included): MEN Chris Cook, 25, Rhinelander, Wis. Justin Freeman, 29, Andover, N.H. Kris Freeman, 25, Andover, N.H. (2002) Lars Flora, 28, Anchorage, Alaska (2002) Andrew Johnson, 28, Greensboro, Vt. (2002) Torin Koos, 25, Leavenworth, Wash. (2002) Andy Newell, 22, Shaftsbury, Vt. James Southam, 27, Anchorage, Alaska Carl Swenson, 35, Park City, Utah (1994, 2002) Leif Zimmermann, 22, Bozeman, Mont. - WOMEN Rebecca Dussault, 25, Gunnison, Colo. Sarah Konrad, 38, Laramie, Wyo. Abigail Larson, 26, Bozeman, Mont. Kikkan Randall, 23, Anchorage, Alaska (2002) Wendy Wagner, 32, Park City, Utah (2002) Lindsey Weier, 21, Mahtomedi, Minn. (2002) Lindsay Williams, 21, Hastings, Minn.
"This is a strong team, even stronger than we had four years ago," Bodensteiner said. "Those who were rookies in Salt Lake have developed into real performers now, and our first-timers in 2006 are poised for some very noteworthy results themselves, which we can continue to build from.
"We had a great group of Americans who did not make the team, but who poured their guts out in their effort to earn a spot. They really pushed each other over the last 12 months and by doing so, raised the level of all our skiers."
The U.S. Olympic Cross Country Team will arrive in Torino to begin training Feb. 6.
