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Local gay sports leagues gearing up for new year of activities
Shawn Stingel, winner of the Team DC model search, in a publicity photo for the group's holiday party. (Photo courtesy of Kevin Majoros)
Team DC, the information clearinghouse for 28 LGBT sports clubs in the D.C. metro area, has a full calendar of events coming up for the early months of 2011. Save the following dates as full details of the events will be posted soon.
They will be hosting a casino night on Jan. 29 which will include billiards, poker and blackjack. The second Team DC “Jock-a-thon” will take place on March 2. All 28 LGBT sports clubs will be in attendance to recruit new members and mingle with sports enthusiasts.
The hugely popular Team DC Fashion Show and Model Search is slated for March 12 and is the group’s main fundraising event for its LGBT student/athlete scholarship fund. And finally, Team DC will be hosting a dodge ball tournament on March 26. Start organizing your team now and remember, “If you can dodge traffic, you can dodge a ball.” Visit www.teamdc.org for details.
Lambda DanceSport DC is promoting its annual Yuletide Ball Championships from Dec. 31 to Jan. 2 at the JW Marriott Hotel. Join them to witness some great amateur, pro/am and pro/pro competition performers plus ballroom and Latin workshops by some of America’s finest instructors. An itinerary can be found at pleasedancewithme.com/yuletideball.htm.
MYOB Adventures is offering a snow tubing day trip at Whitetail Ski Resort on Jan. 29. The package will include luxury bus transportation, two hours of snow tubing and lunch. Contact [email protected] to sign up for this fun-filled day.
Congratulations to the Washington Renegades rugby team for defeating the Winchester Cannons in their last game of the season at home by a score of 55-7. The win secured a spot in next spring’s Mid-Atlantic Rugby Football Union (MARFU) playoffs which will mark the first time the Renegades have secured a berth in the tournament. The team is online at dcrugby.com.
Adventuring Outdoors Group is celebrating the passing of the seasons and the return of the sun on the 13th annual Sugarloaf Solstice/Poetry Hike on Sunday. This moderate circuit hike of about 7 miles and 1,700 feet of elevation gain will lead to a series of peaks on top of Sugarloaf mountain near Frederick, Md. Along the way, they will stop at the White Rocks overlook and have lunch while sharing favorite poems in honor of the passing of another year. The group will meet at Grosvenor-Strathmore Metro Station at 10 a.m. Contact Chris at [email protected] for more information.
The Adventurers will also be hosting the Boxing Day Hike on the Capital Crescent Trail on Dec. 26. This will be an easy one-way stroll of about 7 miles, level or downhill, between Bethesda and Georgetown on what used to be a railroad spur line, now converted to a popular hiking-biking trail. The hikers will meet at 11 a.m. at street level atop the escalators of the Bethesda Metro Station at Wisconsin Avenue and Old Georgetown Road. Contact Craig at [email protected] for more information.
More than a dozen LGBTQ athletes won medals at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics that ended on Sunday.
Cayla Barnes, Hilary Knight, and Alex Carpenter are LGBTQ members of the U.S. women’s hockey team that won a gold medal after they defeated Canada in overtime. Knight the day before the Feb. 19 match proposed to her girlfriend, Brittany Bowe, an Olympic speed skater.
French ice dancer Guillaume Cizeron, who is gay, and his partner Laurence Fournier Beaudry won gold. American alpine skier Breezy Johnson, who is bisexual, won gold in the women’s downhill. Amber Glenn, who identifies as bisexual and pansexual, was part of the American figure skating team that won gold in the team event.
Swiss freestyle skier Mathilde Gremaud, who is in a relationship with Vali Höll, an Austrian mountain biker, won gold in women’s freeski slopestyle.
Bruce Mouat, who is the captain of the British curling team that won a silver medal, is gay. Six members of the Canadian women’s hockey team — Emily Clark, Erin Ambrose, Emerance Maschmeyer, Brianne Jenner, Laura Stacey, and Marie-Philip Poulin — that won silver are LGBTQ.
Swedish freestyle skier Sandra Naeslund, who is a lesbian, won a bronze medal in ski cross.
Belgian speed skater Tineke den Dulk, who is bisexual, was part of her country’s mixed 2000-meter relay that won bronze. Canadian ice dancer Paul Poirier, who is gay, and his partner, Piper Gilles, won bronze.
Laura Zimmermann, who is queer, is a member of the Swiss women’s hockey team that won bronze when they defeated Sweden.
Outsports.com notes all of the LGBTQ Olympians who competed at the games and who medaled.
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US wins Olympic gold medal in women’s hockey
Team captain Hilary Knight proposed to girlfriend on Wednesday
The U.S. women’s hockey team on Thursday won a gold medal at the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics.
Team USA defeated Canada 2-1 in overtime. The game took place a day after Team USA captain Hilary Knight proposed to her girlfriend, Brittany Bowe, an Olympic speed skater.
Cayla Barnes and Alex Carpenter — Knight’s teammates — are also LGBTQ. They are among the more than 40 openly LGBTQ athletes who are competing in the games.
The Olympics will end on Sunday.
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Attitude! French ice dancers nail ‘Vogue’ routine
Cizeron and Fournier Beaudry strike a pose in memorable Olympics performance
Madonna’s presence is being felt at the Olympic Games in Italy.
Guillaume Cizeron and his rhythm ice dancing partner Laurence Fournier Beaudry of France performed a flawless skate to Madonna’s “Vogue” and “Rescue Me” on Monday.
The duo scored an impressive 90.18 for their effort, the best score of the night.
“We’ve been working hard the whole season to get over 90, so it was nice to see the score on the screen,” Fournier Beaudry told Olympics.com. “But first of all, just coming out off the ice, we were very happy about what we delivered and the pleasure we had out there. With the energy of the crowd, it was really amazing.”
Watch the routine on YouTube here.
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