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Alan Abrahamson (Team USA)

Even by the standards of Angela Ruggiero’s already remarkable life, she had an amazing winter. Well, and early spring.

Here was Angela as International Olympic Committee member, wining and dining and flying all over the world as part of the select IOC commission evaluating the three cities in the 2018 Winter Games race — Pyeongchang, South Korea; Munich, Germany; and Annecy, France. Glamorous? Sure. But hard work — the commission prepared a lengthy report that was issued Tuesday rating all three. And hard on the body — the last photo op in France took place on a Saturday night and the commission had to be peppy and hard at work in Korea early on a Wednesday morning.

Here, too, was Angela as world-class hockey player, now in late April in Zurich, capping her tenth world championships with a gold medal, a 3-2 overtime victory over Canada.

“I feel so lucky to be a part of it,” Angela said, meaning both worlds, adding, “They’re completely different worlds, for sure. One day, I’m talking to the president or prime minister of France or Korea or Germany.

“The next day I’m in the gym, lifting weights or on the treadmill, talking to my college-age teammates about their exams coming up.  They’re just completely different worlds.”

The IOC evaluation commission traditionally reserves a spot for an athlete’s point of view. But it’s not clear that any serving athlete has been as ever been as simultaneously engaged in both commission and athletic career as Angela Ruggiero.

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“Women’s professional sports often don’t garner the same attention – or paychecks – as the men, but that won’t stop some of the best female hockey players. NBC’s Clare Duffy reports.”

NBC Nightly News does a segment on the Boston Blades featuring Angela Ruggiero.

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Three years ago, Angela Ruggiero was fired by Donald Trump from the NBC hit show “The Apprentice”. Then Trump offered Ruggiero a job in real life, and she walked away.

“You’re crazy for turning that down,” Ruggiero’s friends told her. Ruggiero just laughed, knowing her position on the U.S. women’s ice hockey team would open plenty of doors.

The four-time Olympian has so much on her plate, she can barely keep her head above water, flooded by new roles in the International Olympic Committee and the U.S. Olympic Committee; job offers within hockey; and the twilight of her playing career.
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Four-time Olympian Angela Ruggiero, who most recently earned a silver medal as part of the 2010 U.S. Olympic Women’s Ice Hockey Team, was appointed to the Evaluation Commission that will inspect the three cities competing to host the 2018 Olympic Winter Games, as announced by
the International Olympic Committee.

Ruggiero is one of four Americans on the 11-member panel that is composed of representatives and advisors of the Olympic movement. The 2018 IOC Evaluation Commission will travel to potential host cities Munich, Germany; Annecy, France; and Pyeongchang, South Korea, for on-site inspections from February 8 – March 5, 2011.
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TSN – After sweeping their opponents throughout the tournament, the U.S. Women’s Ice Hockey Team earned silver as they were edged out by Canada in the championship game at the 2009 Women’s Four Nations Cup, Nov. 3-7 in Tikkurila, Finland. The event featured the top four women’s hockey teams in the world – the United States, Canada, Finland and Sweden – and is the last international women’s hockey tournament prior to the start of the 2010 Olympic Winter Games. The U.S. team opened preliminary-round play with a 4-0 win over Finland and added two additional tournament wins after defeating both Sweden and Canada 3-2. The U.S. Women’s team beat Canada to win the gold medal at the 2009 World Championships earlier this year.

Team USA will return to Qwest Tour action on Nov. 22 in Durham, N.H., against the Hockey East All-Stars. For tickets and more information, visit QwestTour.com.
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