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Log Rolling Stories
Salzman ships off in style
Twenty-five-year-old J.R. Salzman may be overseas in a U.S. Army uniform during next year's ESPN Great Outdoor Games. If so, Salzman shipped off in style.

Make it five golds for Bosworth
Tina Bosworth is Log Rolling by this point. Sunday she won her fourth straight gold medal in the event and is the only athlete with a gold medal from each of the five Great Outdoor Games.

Wisconsin women roll
Tina Bosworth of Lake Geneva, Wis., the undefeated champion in the Women's Log Rolling competition at the ESPN Great Outdoors Games presented by Dodge, extended her reign as the event's Michael Jordan on Sunday at the Alliant Energy Center.

Salzman takes Log Rolling gold
JR Salzman of Rochester, Minn., enhanced his collection of precious metals today with the gold medal in the Men's Log Rolling competition at the ESPN Great Outdoor Games presented by Dodge. Salzman, who is also the 2004 gold medalist in Men's Boom Run,

Wisconsin's timber history
When timber competitors come to Madison for pole climbing, log rolling and other competitions, it will be a return to a land where many of those events began. Wisconsin has a long, impressive history of logging.

Bosworth rolls to four-peat
As Tina Bosworth stutter-stepped her way to a fourth straight Log Rolling gold medal in the ESPN Great Outdoor Games, Bosworth didn't need a fresh scar to put a scare into her opponents.

Crying Foul: Fischer wins disputed Log Rolling gold
Surprisingly few people seemed to notice J.R. Salzman when he stalked away from the Log Rolling pond and to his tent, considering that his gold medal in the event had just been overturned in a crushing turn of fortune.

Salzman rolls with the punches
Right about now, J.R. Salzman is probably running himself raw in the highest altitudes he can find in the northern nub of Idaho.He's there with his sister, fellow logroller Tina Bosworth, hoping to simulate Reno's 6,000-foot elevation.

Event description: Log Rolling
Two competitors in each bracket will stand on the same log, facing opposite directions and at the call of "GO" will begin rolling the log with their feet in an attempt to make their opponent fall from the log, into the water. In the Quarter and Semi Fina