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Birthdate: May 31, 1981
Weight: 146 lbs (66 kg)
Height: 5’7” (1.72 m)
Age: 30 years
Gender: Female
Sport: Olympic Alpine Skiing
Nation: Austria
DOB: May 31, 1981
Hometown: Admont

Queen without golden crown
With 21 victories on the World Cup circuit and three crystal globes, Marlies Schild is considered one of the best technical event skiers in the world. However, the skier once dubbed the "Slalom Queen" has yet to reach the top of the podium at the Olympics or World Championships. She failed to finish her first slalom run in her Olympic debut at the 2002 Salt Lake Games. At the 2006 Torino Games, she finished runner-up in the combined and third in the slalom.

Early carving
Schild grew up as the second of four children in a "ski addicted family" in Saalfelden, a town 25 miles south of Salzburg. Her father Josef and mother Rosi, both ski instructors, were instrumental in getting all their children on the slopes at an early age. Marlies' 20-year-old sister Bernadette is a rising star in Alpine, having finished first and second in slalom at the Junior World Championships in 2008 and 2009, respectively, and races on the Austrian B-team in 2009-10.
Entire season wiped out ...
Schild suffered a broken left leg in a training fall on the Rettenbachferner glacier in Austria on the eve of the 2008-09 World Cup season, sabotaging all chances for her to earn her first overall World Cup title. After rehabbing her leg in Innsbruck and Saalfelden, she first got back on skis on Easter Sunday, when she went cross-country skiing with her boyfriend of six years, Austrian men's superstar Benjamin Raich. Her first Alpine training session came in July 2009, when she returned to the scene of her injury, Rettenbachferner.
... but not entire year
Schild picked up where she left off, taking second place in the slalom event at Aspen in November and winning that event at Lienz just before New Year's. Her margin of victory in the two-run race at Lienz was a whopping 1.83 seconds as she exhibited her old form. After the race, she admitted that she was finally able to rid herself of the doubts collected over 14 months and focus on racing during her clinching second run.

Full name: Angela Marie Ruggiero 
Birthdate: January 03, 1980
Weight: 190 lbs (86 kg)
Height: 5’8” (1.75 m)
Age: 32 years
Gender: Female
Country:  United States
Sport: Ice Hockey

Angela Ruggiero was a defenseman who played high school hockey at Choate Rosemary Hall in Connecticut, playing on the 1998 Olympic team while a student there, and college hockey at Harvard University, where she won the 2004 Patty Kazmaier Award as the top player in women’s college hockey. In 2004, Ruggiero graduated from Harvard cum laude with a degree in government. During her college career, she scored 79 goals and 214 points, the latter a record for a college defenseman, male or female. At the 2005 World Championships, in a shoot-out, Ruggiero scored the goal that won the title for the US over Canada, the first time the United States had won a World Championships. Ruggiero has also skated for the Minnesota Whitecaps of the Women’s Western Hockey League.

In 2005 Ruggiero played for the Tulsa Oilers of the Central Hockey League in one game against the Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees, becoming the first woman to play in a men’s professional league at a position other than goaltender. Her brother, Bill Ruggiero, was the goaltender for Tulsa and they became the first brother-sister combination to play professional hockey.

At the 2002 Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony, Ruggiero was one of the eight athletes chosen to carry in the flag from the World Trade Center from 9/11. In 2007 Ruggiero was also chosen to be a contestant on the US business-themed reality show, “The Apprentice,” starring Donald Trump. She was voted off the show after the 10th episode, but was offered a job by Trump in his organization. Ruggiero declined, as she is studying for a masters’ degree in sports management at the University of Minnesota, and still training with the US Team in an attempt to make the 2010 Winter Olympics, which would be her fourth.

Date of Birth: 27 September 1991
Height: 1.72m / 5’7″
Career record: 81-15
Highest ranking: 232 (June 8 2009)

Simona Halep is the latest up-and-coming tennis sensation.  From Constanta, Romania, she won the Junior French Open Tournament in 2008, aged 16. A year later, in 2009, Halep could only make the second round of the qualifiers in the Senior tournament, losing in three sets to Vitalia Diatchenko.

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Marieke Katherine Guehrer (born 9 February 1986) is an Australian swimmer who is the world record holder in the 50 metres butterfly short course. She clocked 24.99 seconds. After her breakout meet in late 2008, Guehrer broke her personal best times in several events, also breaking the short course 50 m butterfly world record. At the 2009 Telstra Aus trials, she earned an individual spot in the 100 m freestyle clocking 54.28 along with a spot on the 4x100 m Freestyle relay team. The next day she clocked 25.60 s in the 50 m Butterfly, easily making the qualifying time and becoming the third fastest in history in that event, after some thunderous times posted in the semi-finals, the fasted qualifiers failed to match their times in the final, and Guehrer won gold. At the 2009 World Aquatics Championships, Guehrer picked up her first medal on day one with a bronze medal in the 4x100 m freestyle relay. With a tremendously fast semi-finals in the 50 m Butterfly, from lane 6 Guehrer caused an upset capturing gold. At the 2010 Commonwealth Games, Guehrer won silver in the 50m butterfly final to Francesca Halsall and won gold in the 4 by 100 freestyle relay.