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Elaine Youngs of Durango still plays volleyball professionally after competing in the 1996, 2004 and 2008 Olympics. Youngs participates in the AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour and the Federation...

The first time mountain biker Todd Wells competed in the Olympics, it was where the games first began - Greece. The first Olympics were held in 776 B.C. and included such events as boxing,...

An ideas forum held Saturday for La Plata County's comprehensive plan at times turned into a debate about privateproperty rights and government regulation.“Any county regulation must in its very...

She always was fast, but the timing of the Olympics just didn't line up for two-time Olympic kayaker Cathy Hearn.She competed in the 1992 and 1996 summer games, where she placed ninth and seventh,...

Greg Lyman this year returned to the Olympics to watch the same sport he competed in 38 years ago: the 500-meterspeed-skating event. Lyman, a 6th Judicial District court judge in Southwest...

DENVER - The Durango Herald won the General Excellence award from the Colorado Associated Press Editors and Reporters2009 contest for small newspapers Friday.Its sister paper, the Cortez Journal,...

The depth of U.S. Olympic ski teams has increased steadily to place many Americans at the pinnacle of the internationalwinter competition, a three-time Olympian in cross country skiing said. ...

Current U.S. alpine skiers are the cream of the crop, but the foundation for their training, financial support andstellar performance was laid more than 50 years ago, a two-time Olympian says. “We...

For Nancy Reno, the Olympic experience in 1996 was a “painful disappointment."She spent 20 years training and entered the summer games one-half of a gold-medal-favorite beach volleyball team....

Though the memory doesn't sit well with him, Durango's own Travis Brown said he's proud of what he did in Sydney in2000.“It was not a good performance for me," Brown said of 32nd place, his result...