Word: championed
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...roughly 30 contestants. The music blared, the pieces clacked, and the victors rose as the double-elimination tournament rolled on through the night. Sticky notes for a $10 tab at the Grille went to the first and second runners-up and a $20 Finale gift certificate went to the champion. Though the stakes were high, the victims of the seven-column-by-six-row vertical playing field remained composed in the face of defeat. “I’m not a very good game player—so I pretty much expected to lose going...
...end-all.What about the speedskater’s kindness and generosity?Now this is where it really gets blurry. Cheek was the Mother Theresa of the 2006 Olympics, taking his $40,000 of bonuses from his two medals and donating it to Right to Play. And as former U.S. skating champion Dan Jansen put it, “This guy doesn’t have a lot of money. He’s not wealthy, and he gave $40,000—that is a lot of money for a speedskater.”Furthermore, from most accounts, Cheek...
...Wednesday's four medals--all by women--were promptly buried in the avalanche of gloom accompanying the loss that night by Canada's defending Olympic champion men's hockey team. Some $90 million of NHL talent was bounced from the Games by Russia, a turn of events team boss Wayne Gretzky called "absolutely devastating...
...record on snow isn't as good as the one on ice in some of the newer events. Sure, two-time World Cup-champion freestyle skier Jennifer Heil, of Spruce Grove, Alta., won gold. But after winning gold, silver and bronze in 1994, the men's freestylers missed the podium for the third straight Olympics. And no Canadian man has made a trip to an Olympic podium in snowboarding since the sport made its debut...
...women’s water polo tournament, finishing second among the six teams present. The Crimson was placed in a bracket with club teams Columbia and Dartmouth and defeated them by scores of 14-3 and 13-0, respectively. In the semi-finals of the tournament, Harvard, the defending champion, beat Penn 9-6 to set up a title showdown with the Tigers. Despite not being able to repeat as champions, the team still felt confident about its performance. “This is another good starting tournament for us,” captain driver Arin Keyser said...