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Jean Senft, a current Olympic and world figure skating judge, is no stranger to the sport's controversial side. While judging at the Nagano Winter Games in 1998 she blew the whistle on behind-the-scenes vote trading after Canadian ice dancers Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz were denied a medal. She was initially cited for national bias by the International Skating Union, but after she produced a taped phone solicitation from a Ukrainian judge the Court of Arbitration for Sport overturned the citation and suspended the implicated judges...
...three Olympic athletes expected to play hockey for Harvard next year—Canadian forward Jennifer Botterill ’02-’03, U.S. defenseman Angela Ruggiero ’02-’04 and U.S. forward Julie Chu ’06—each scored goals in their most recent games...
Bronson’s odyssey as a visual artist is central to the exhibit. Along with Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal, Bronson founded the Canadian conceptual art group General Idea. The collaborative was more than just the exploration of media bombardment in the modern age, an omnipresent theme in their work. Rather, all three members doffed their former identities and names to form an all-encompassing way of art and life that lasted from 1969 until 1994. In 1994, General Idea dissolved when Zontal and Partz, so integral to Bronson’s artistic and personal life, died from AIDS...
...allegations go, pressure from outside sources was the reason "skate gate" judge Le Gougne voted for Russian pairs team Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze over the cleaner-skating Canadian pair Jamie Sale and David Pelletier Monday night. Didier Gailhaguet, head of the French Olympic committee, told a reporter that Le Gougne had been pressured to cast her vote a certain...
MSNBC also did a quick between-period feature on U.S. defenseman Angela Ruggiero ’02-’04, which included interviews with her and former roommate and Canadian rival Jennifer Botterill ’02-’03. The feature also recycled video clips from a two-year old Oxygen.com feature that showed the pair walking out of Sever Hall and eating at Leverett Dining Hall...