Word: championed
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...Torino, the only athlete left to salvage Japan's underwhelming performance was 24-year-old women's figure skater Shizuka Arakawa, clinging to third place going into the long-program event. Arakawa may have been the 2004 world champion, but all week the who-will-get-gold headlines belonged to the frontrunners, America's Sasha Cohen and Russia's Irina Slutskaya. "[Arakawa] is among the top-three girls," her coach Nikolai Morozov told TIME in the run-up to Torino. "She now has to work on building more confidence in herself...
...Lydia’s match that she won was 3-1 over there. It could have gone the other way, and here it did.”Lorentzen, who had beaten top-ranked Michelle Quibell in five games on Wednesday, held a two-game lead over the defending Individuals champion when Quibell retired, ceding the match. Bajwa said that Quibell opted not to finish in order to rest her hamstring for the next day’s bout with Trinity’s Vaidehi Reddy—which Quibell would win, 3-1. Lorentzen and Quibell could likely meet again...
...side of the fashion ring with his sleek, pared-down pantsuits and Gianni Versace fought back with high-octane glamour and glitz. More recently, in the late '90s, Tom Ford played Gucci against the artsier Prada label with the kind of slick vulgarity that made him a fashion champion...
...side of the fashion ring with his sleek, pared-down pantsuits and Gianni Versace fought back with high-octane glamour and glitz. More recently, in the late '90s, Tom Ford played Gucci against the more artsy Prada label with the kind of slick vulgarity that made him a fashion champion. This season there were new players at both Gucci and Jil Sander. In her second season at Gucci, creative director Frida Giannini embraced Ford's sexy legacy with a collection inspired by David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust period - featuring flared pantsuits, slinky jersey minidresses and platform heels. Pitted against...
...Canada and the United States, gold and silver medalists in Salt Lake City four years ago, both went out in the quarterfinals at Torino. As defending champion, Canada played the 20th Olympic Winter Games tournament as though doubled over by the weight of those expectations back home, displaying grim expressions, old legs and an impotent offense. By contrast, Russia embraced a youth-infused, why-not-us swagger, allowing its forwards to freelance and its goaltender to compensate as needed. Fittingly, sensational newcomer Alexander Ovechkin scored the winner as Russia eliminated Canada 2-0 on Wednesday; Sidney Crosby, his competition...