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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...
...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...
...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...