Bobsledder recovering: Joe Sisson, the bobsled pilot from Evanston, Wyo., who was badly injured in a crash in Switzerland about a week ago, is doing better and is undergoing treatment in LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City.
At 21, he is a rising star in the U.S. Bobsled and Skeleton Federation. Although he was not scheduled to compete in the Games, Sisson is among the most promising young athletes on the U.S. junior team.
During a run at the junior world championship in St. Moritz, Switzerland, his two-man bobsled crashed, and Sisson suffered head injuries.
Racine speaks out: Jean Racine, the top women bobsled pilot, says if she were a man the controversy over changing brakemen would have been different.
Racine, of Waterford, Mich., was the center of a firestorm of publicity when she decided to dump long-term brakeman Jen Davidson, Layton. In her place she chose a newcomer to bobsledding, Gea Johnson of Phoenix, Ariz.
Many commentators pointed out that Racine and Davidson not only were a bobsled team but had been best friends.
"I don't think the media focuses on relationships and friendships when it comes to men, especially in sport," Racine said Thursday. "I think it's just more understood that we all have a job out there to do."
Having Johnson in her sled will help take her to the higher level of athleticism necessary in the Games, she said in a press conference.
Speedskater released: The Korean short-track speedskater who was taken from the Salt Lake Ice Center on a stretcher Wednesday night was released from LDS Hospital later that evening.
Ryoung Min collided into the boards during the men's 5,000-meter relay semifinal. Dr. Scott Hansen, venue medical officer for the center, said X-rays of Min's back and pelvis revealed only muscle and soft tissue contusions, no bone injuries.
Korean team leaders, however, have withdrawn Min from competition in individual events. The accident resulted in the Korean team's being disqualified from the relay competition for impeding.
