Winter News

Australian Ice Dancing pair Danielle O'Brien and Greg Merriman in action over the years.

BLOG: There is no better way to imagine my 24th birthday than marching under the Australian flag in the 2014 Sochi Olympic Opening Ceremony!

John Farrow of Australia starts at the second run of the men's Skeleton World Championship on February 24, 2011 in Koenigssee, Germany.

Lying on the ground with his knee literally in pieces, John Farrow made a decision right there and then - he was going to the Olympics.

(L to R): Ten Network Holdings Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Hamish McLennan; Australian Olympic Committee President, John Coates; and Ten Network Holdings Chairman, Lachlan Murdoch

SOCHI2014: Ten Network Holdings today announced it had signed an agreement with the IOC to broadcast the XXII Olympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia, in 2014.

Aerial skier

BLOG: During the off season it’s rest and then straight back into the gym to get strong for the coming northern hemisphere summer. Knees, backs and energy levels deteriorate slowly over the winter season and now that I am home it’s time to build them back up to peak form especially this being potentially the most important year of my sporting career.

The beautiful Sochi ski cross course at the official test event for the 2014 Winter Games.

BLOG: Follow Australia's Olympic hopefuls on the road to the next Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. Powered by Olympics.com.au @AUSOlympicTeam

A cameraman at the Olympic Games.

SOCHI 2014: It is expected that the Ten Network will come to an agreement with the International Olympic Committee over the rights to the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games.

Belle Brockhoff (boarder-X), Anna Segal (ski slopestyle), Nate Johnstone (snowboard pipe) and Kent Callister (snowboard pipe) at one of John Marsden's strength and conditioning sessions on Sydney's Northern Beaches.

BLOG: With two weeks of strength and conditioning training left before I head overseas, I’m giving it everything I have. It’s Saturday night at 8.30pm and I’m sitting in bed, drinking tea like a nanna. The rockstar life of an extreme athlete it is not.

Lucy Chaffer of Australia finishes in eighth place in the FIBT women's skeleton world cup heat 1, on November 16, 2012 at Utah Olympic Park in Park City, Utah.

BLOG: I had to face something that in my 29 years of life and playing sport I have never had to deal with: injury.

Russell Henshaw of Australia competes in the FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup slope style final at the U.S. Grand Prix on January 12, 2013 in Copper Mountain, Colorado. Henshaw finished the event in second place.

FREESTYLE SKIING: Time, money and patience are usually high on the catalogue of requirements for parents of gifted young athletes.

Athletes at the Sochi 2014 Team Assembly in Sydney on May 9, 2013.

SOCHI 2014: With just nine months to go until the next Olympic Winter Games in Russia, over 30 Australian athletes gathered on the other side of the world to brace for Sochi 2014.

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