- Will Michelle Kwan finally win that elusive gold in figure skating?
- Will Apolo Ohno add to his Salt Lake City success?
- And what will Bode Miller say next?
KRT will open its Turin bureau on Feb. 9 and will move Olympics budgets. Until then, Olympic coverage will run as a part of the daily sports budget. To view KRT Olympic coverage that has already moved visit KRT Direct.
And KRT’s top-notch coverage doesn’t end with the News Service. KRT Graphics has 10 sports explainers describing some of the Winter Games’ most popular events: figure skating, ski jumping, freestyle skiing, Nordic skiing, slalom, curling, skeleton, ice hockey, bobsled and speed skating.
Also available are caricatures of Olympic hockey players and skiers, a travel graphic on Italy and graphics on the venues for bobsled/skeleton/luge, Nordic skiing, Alpine skiing, ski jumping, snowboarding, slalom and speed skating. KRT Graphics has also posted a complete set of official event icons.
To view and download images, visit KRT Direct. For more Olympics coverage from KRT, click here.
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Paginated sections preview the Turin Games
The 2006 Winter Olympics open Feb. 10 in Turin, Italy, but you can give your readers all the pre-Games warmup they need with KRT's 8-page broadsheet section and 8-page kids’ tabloid section, available now.
The full-color paginated broadsheet section features exclusive previews from KRT’s top team of contributing sports writers, as well as photos of the venues and top athletes. Pages can be used together as a section or purchased for use a la carte.
The OnePages focus on:
- Turin, the area and venues.
- TV coverage, including a schedule of NBC’s highlighted coverage, available for all four major U.S. time zones.
- Previews of the top sports, including figure skating, snowboarding, alpine and cross-country skiing, and more.
- A roundup of who to watch in some of the Games’ lesser-known sports, like curling, luge and biathlon.
- A full-page timeline of memorable moments in Winter Olympics history, from Canada’s first hockey win in Chamonix in 1924 to the debut of women’s bobsledding in Salt Lake City in 2002.
A tabloid section gives young readers a preview of the Games and an introduction to Turin and Italy.
For previews and downloads of KRT OnePages, go to KRT Direct. If you already have a KRT Direct user ID and password, you can download any OnePage immediately. To obtain a KRT Direct user ID or rates for print or online usage, call Rick DeChantal at or , or e-mail him at .
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XL coverage of the 40th Super Bowl
KRT News Service will assemble a solid lineup of veteran Super Bowl reporters and columnists, including Miami Herald columnist Edwin Pope, Rick Gosselin of the Dallas Morning News, Mitch Albom of the Detroit Free Press and Gary Myers of the New York Daily News.
Look for endzone-to-endzone coverage from KRT on Super Sunday. For Pope, this is Super Bowl is his 40th.
Meanwhile, KRT Photo Service will provided a comprehensive photo report from Super Bowl XL at Ford Field in Detroit on Feb. 5.
The game features the AFC champion Pittsburgh Steelers against the NFC champion Seattle Seahawks. In addition to game coverage, KRT will move images from pregame and halftime festivities.
To preview and download KRT's coverage, visit KRT Direct.
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Speed past your competitors with NewsCom
Many outlets will have coverage of the U.S. Olympic teams in Turin this year. What will you do to stand out? Give your readers the stories behind the U.S. teams with unique images and text from NewsCom.
In this photo, USA Hockey veteran Angela Ruggiero skates in the new look uniform for Team USA, a technical innovation called Nike Swift Hockey that the men and women will wear in the Olympic Winter Games. (PRNewsFoto/Nike)
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Author-actor gives take on Super Bowl
His father gave legendary actress Elizabeth Taylor her first on-screen, romantic kiss (the movie ``Julia Misbehaves,'' 1948).
His uncle was president of the United States before he was struck down by an assassin's bullet on a tragic Friday in November 1963.
His dance instructor was Marilyn Monroe, the iconic heartthrob of the 1950s who taught him as a youngster how to gyrate to the twist.
Christopher Kennedy Lawford — actor, best-selling author and serious NFL fan — put his scripts and books aside for a while to talk Super Bowl X-tra Large, with Gregory Clay of Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service. The column, slugged FBN-SUPER-CLAY-COLUMN, and a photo of Lawford are available on KRT Direct.
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