US hockey's Ruggiero aiming to become IOC member

Four-time Olympic hockey player Angela Ruggiero of the United States is among nine current and former athletes standing for election to become members of the IOC in Vancouver next month.

The Harvard-educated Ruggiero is an alternate captain for the U.S. women's team, which won gold at the 1998 Nagano Games.

Antoine Deneriaz, the retired French skier who won downhill gold at Turin four years ago, is also running for one of two spots on the IOC athletes' commission.

Other candidates include Slovakian hockey player Miroslav Satan, now a Boston Bruins winger in the NHL who won a Stanley Cup title with the Pittsburgh Penguins last season; Jacqui …