{"id":8025,"date":"2006-02-16T18:16:38","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T23:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/?p=8025"},"modified":"2011-07-06T08:30:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-06T13:30:09","slug":"covenanters-performing-well-in-winter-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire\/2006\/02\/16\/covenanters-performing-well-in-winter-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Covenanters Performing Well in Winter Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TORINO, ITALY (February 16, 2006)  &#8211; Covenanter Amy Sannes placed 17th in the  Winter Olympics 500m speed skating event Tuesday. Meanwhile another  Covenanter, Krissy Wendell, has been helping the United States hockey  team continue its unbeaten streak into the semifinals.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sannes finished with a time of 78:89 seconds, which was 2:32 behind  winner Svetlana Zhurova. She is scheduled to compete in the 1,000m race  on Sunday. Sannes is a native of St. Paul, Minnesota, and has attended  Salem Covenant Church in New Brighton, Minnesota. She also is a graduate  of Minnehaha Academy.<\/p>\n<p>Sannes was a member of the 1998 and 2002 U.S. Winter Olympic teams in  speed skating, finishing eighth in the 1,500 meter race at the 2002  event. She began speed skating in 1988 after seeing the Calgary Olympics  on television, including a clip on local speed skaters.<\/p>\n<p>Wendell has scored three goals and one assist in the three games the  women have played so far. Wendell scored two against Sweden in a 3-0  victory Saturday and netted a goal and assist in a 7-3 win over Finland  on Tuesday. The team beat Germany 5-0 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The women will take on Sweden again in the semifinals scheduled for  Friday evening and are favored to take on Canada in the finals Monday.  They are the only two teams to ever play for gold in major international  competitions.<\/p>\n<p>To read more about Wendell, see <a href=\"http:\/\/old.covchurch.org\/cov\/news\/item1607.html\">Krissy Wendell.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">Copyright \u00a9 2011 The Evangelical Covenant Church.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/newswire?moderation_action=report_form&#038;object_type=post&#038;object_id=8025&#038;width=250&#038;height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORINO, ITALY (February 16, 2006) &#8211; Covenanter Amy Sannes placed 17th in the Winter Olympics 500m speed skating event Tuesday. 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