Word: championed
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...transport their equipment to pre-Olympic events, training camps and to the Olympics themselves in Beijing, China. This will significantly limit our athletes' ability to prepare for important events. And it will have further significant implications as we head towards the London 2012 Olympics." Newly crowned European long board champion and English champion Ben Skinner is also raising his voice in protest, saying, "As part of the British team I have always traveled with BA. I think it's a disgrace that they have thrown this ban back at us. BA seems to have totally underestimated the amount of business...
...Harvard goes into this season with a chip on its collective shoulder following its memorable quadruple-overtime loss in the NCAA Tournament to Wisconsin, the No. 1 ranked team in the country and eventual national champion...
...Dartmouth, last season’s ECAC champion, represented a family connection for McDonald—her uncles Bob and Steve Arndt and her cousin Jaime Arndt all spent their college hockey careers with the Big Green...
...said Cahow. “Princeton was very aggressive on the penalty kill. They really stopped us pretty well in the first two periods.” AROUND THE ECAC A total of five ECAC contests were played across the Northeast this weekend. Last year’s ECAC champion Dartmouth had its hands full with Princeton on Friday night, notching the winning goal with just 4:16 left in an eventual 4-3 victory. The Big Green cruised on Saturday, skating to an 8-1 triumph over Quinnipiac. Yale and Brown squared off in an Ivy League showdown...
...standing, with or without a prosthesis (the WOVD also holds "sitting" volleyball tournaments for wheelchair-bound players). Ranked top in Asia, Cambodia is one of eight national teams competing for a trophy that local artists have fittingly sculpted from melted-down AK-47 assault rifles. Canada, the reigning champion, is the team to beat. The German squad is also highly rated. Out of the running are Afghanistan and Rwanda, who pulled their teams at the last minute, pleading lack of funds...