Mitchell bounces back for gold medal at Vail JOs (Vail Daily)
Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:35:36 GMT
VAIL, Colorado- A day off from racing seemed to hit the spot for the for the boys in the J3 Junior Olympic giant slalom Tuesday at Golden Peak. Of course, winning a medal at JOs will improve anyone's outlook on life. Nicholas Mitchell of Welch Valley (Red Wing, Minn.) returned to the top of the podium, shaking off a DNF in Sunday's super-G, winning the GS for his second gold medal of the JOs ...
Vail JOs: Brownell-Patty makes it three straight (Vail Daily)
Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:35:38 GMT
VAIL, Colorado - Aspen's Danielle Brownell-Patty will not win today at the J3 Junior Olympics today in Vail. You can take that to the bank. Of course, the girls have the day off with the boys doing the giant slalom at 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m., but that's not important right now. A day off is pretty much the only thing slowing down Brownell-Patty these days. She made it three golds in a row Monday ...
Vail JOs: Veth conquers tough super-G course (Vail Daily)
Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:50:59 GMT
VAIL, Colorado - The boys watched the girls J3 Junior Olympic super-G as 11 racers didn't finish. They inspected. They visualized. It was still chaos as 24 of 90 athletes were either DNFs or disqualified for missing a gate. It was hard to watch in more ways than one for the competitors. "I'm glad we went behind the girls," Nicholas Veth of Taos, N.M., said. "The jump was solved." For some, or ...
Vail JOs: Central racers grab top spots in boys downhill (The Vail Trail)
Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:16:42 GMT
VAIL, Colorado - So much for the concept that Midwesterners from small bunny slopes can't ski downhill. Nicholas Mitchell of Welch Valley (Red Wing, Minn.) struck gold in Saturday's J3 Junior Olympics boys downhill on Golden Peak in Vail. With Buck Hill's Connor Croasdale (Burnsville, Minn.) taking second, the Central Region went 1-2, thank you very much. Ski and Snowboard Club Vail's Nick ...
Vail snowboarder covets better gear, police say (Vail Daily)
Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:27:18 GMT
VAIL, Colorado - Security cameras tipped police to a snowboard theft in progress on Vail Mountain Feb. 2. A 21-year-old man was recorded taking a snowboard and hiding it near a "coal train car." Vail Mountain Security identified the man as a cook at an on-mountain restaurant, where police eventually contacted him. The suspect initially said the snowboard belonged to his roommate who had called ...
It's for real now: JO downhill Saturday in Vail (The Vail Trail)
Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:48:33 GMT
VAIL, Colorado - Training is nice, but it's time to race. The runs count today with the girls and boys downhills at the J3 Junior Olympics on Golden Peak in Vail. The athletes set a bit of a pecking order for today's races with the last day of training Friday. Nicholas Mitchell of Welch Valley (Red Wing, Minn.) won for the second day in a row on the boys side with a time of 46.64 seconds. For ...
Driver eyes cops after Vail Valley chase (Vail Daily)
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:43:48 GMT
VAIL VALLEY, Colorado - A deputy got into a car chase in the Vail Valley Feb. 21 after responding to a call for assistance from Vail police regarding a hit-and-run. The deputy was in the suspect's area when he received the call. The officer found a red Jeep Wrangler and license plate matching the description of the suspect vehicle. It was stuck in a ditch on Riverside Drive near its intersection ...
Colorado at 1 p.m. (The Victoria Advocate)
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:46:30 GMT
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Do you remember Vail's 'Dumb and Dumber' bank robbers? (The Vail Trail)
Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:17:08 GMT
VAIL, Colorado - Five years after a bank robbery in Vail that gained instant international attention, the robbers are back home in Australia after spending more than four years each in federal prison. Anthony Prince, then 20, and Luke Carroll, then 19, two Australians living in Vail and working at Pepi's Sports, robbed the WestStar Bank in Vail in 2005. What followed grabbed media attention from ...
Junior Olympics hit Vail (Vail Daily)
Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:50:45 GMT
VAIL - Seventeen days of Olympics weren't enough for you? Well, here you go -the J3 Junior Olympics start today with downhill training at Golden Peak in Vail. The girls start at 10:30 a.m., followed by the boys at 11:45 a.m. Today's and Friday's training runs set up five days' worth of racing from Saturday's downhill all the way to Wednesday's slalom at Beaver Creek. And keeping in the Olympic ...
