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...Mikko Ronkainen, who dominated last year's tour but have struggled with injuries this year. In aerials, which has a strong gymnastics component, it's no surprise that Eastern European countries will contest. Belarus features top women's aerialist Alla Tsuper, as well as the men's No. 2, Alexei Grichin. It is a surprise that Australia, hardly a ski power, has a strong contender in Jacqui Cooper. Canada, an aerial force, will offer Veronika Bauer and Jeff Bean. Although the U.S. will dominate the snowboarding half-pipe, its riders are basically uninterested in the parallel giant-slalom race. Look...
...side, either Alexei Yagudin, a three-time world champion, or his teammate Evgeni Plushenko, the reigning world gold medalist, will probably keep up the golden streak of Russian champions established in the past three Winter Games. Yagudin, who trains in the U.S., is a passionate performer and is eager to redeem his fifth-place finish in Nagano, where he was laid low by the flu. Plushenko is just as accomplished but far less polished. His program music is usually a bewildering pastiche of movie sound tracks, and the choreography is just as disjointed, but he never fails to impress with...
...bailiffs were simply executing a court order, said Alexei Volin, a senior government spokesman, so "one should not talk about any change in the freedom of the press in Russia." Opposition politicians expressed the usual outrage, though this time there was a tinge of fatigue in their voices. "For the first time since the Brezhnev years I feel a constant, low-grade sense of shame for my country," said Vladimir Lukin, deputy speaker of the Duma, or lower house of parliament. Few, however, believe the affair will cause more than a ripple of protest inside Russia or beyond...
...Colgate’s newcomers is winger Dmitry Yashin, brother of New York Islanders star Alexei. While not quite as skilled as his older brother, Yashin has scored the most points of any of the Colgate freshmen...
...fight against terrorism. His spirited support for cooperation, for letting American troops into what Russia has for centuries seen as its backyard, has provoked unease among many within the rank and file of the Russian military and government. "There exists a two-tier attitude toward the U.S. presence," says Alexei Malashenko, scholar-in-residence at the Carnegie Moscow Center. "Explicitly, Russian leaders quite sincerely welcome the antiterrorist operation in the area. Implicitly, they fear that the U.S. has come there to stay...