The US Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC) is calling for Katie Uhlaender, the skeleton athlete at the center of an Olympic qualifying controversy, to be given a discretionary place at February's Winter Games at Milan-Cortina, to "preserve" her Olympic dream. Uhlaender, a two-time world champion, says she was unfairly denied the chance to reach her sixth Winter Games during a qualifying event in Lake Placid, New York, earlier this month. She accused Canada's skeleton coach, Joe Cecchini,