ted ligety-related stories
Posted Feb 20th 2006 12:18PM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Sports, NBC, Programming

Three nights of ice dancing? No wonder ratings are down
for the Olympics. Tonight promises to be the final night of ice dancing, with the free skate. Americans Tanith Belbin
and and Ben Agosto are in second place, thanks to some falls by the top teams yesterday.
Big-mouthed Bode
Miller is back on the slopes, this time in the Giant Slalom. The real talent here, still flying under the radar even
after winning a gold medal, is Park City's Ted Ligety. And a cool spectacle tonight will be the men's aerials ski
competition.
And, after all these days of hockey, the women of Canada and Sweden will play each other for
the gold.
Here's the schedule on all of NBC's networks:
Continue reading The Olympics: Day 11
Posted Jan 7th 2006 8:30AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Sports, NBC, Talent, Las Vegas

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.