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Victory tasted good at the ECAC Championship last year, and this weekend, Harvard men’s tennis was back for seconds. This time, though, the win was served with a hint of upset...
...lining the stands of the Richmond Olympic Oval south of Vancouver on Saturday were more than a thousand people dressed in orange (the color of the Dutch royal family), singing, ringing cowbells, waving noisemakers, treating this somniferous sport as it were a championship title bout. When Dutchman Sven Kramer, 24, won the gold and set an Olympic 5,000-meter record, they roared. But, then again, they cheered boisterously for every skater that passed by them. As sports fans go, no group is more bewildering than the speed-skating nuts from Holland...
While Harvard’s championship hopes have taken a hit the last two weeks and are now a long shot, many games remain to be played. Anything can happen, but one thing is certain. If the Crimson is to challenge for the Ivy crown, it will take a league-wide effort...
Well, sort of. The IOC originally announced its decision to exclude women jumpers from the Vancouver Olympics back in 2006. At the time, a women's world championship didn't exist, and females had been participating in the FIS Continental Cup - a notch below a world championship - for only two years. The sport didn't have very many high-profile, FIS-sanctioned competitions, but that too may have owed to gender bias. In 2005, Gian Franco Kasper, FIS president and a member of the IOC, said he didn't think women should ski jump because the sport "seems...
...behind medical conditions that make it difficult to determine an athlete's sex. Long a topic of debate in Olympic circles (mandatory gender testing began in the 1960s), sex ambiguity hit the headlines again last year when South African runner Caster Semenya won the women's 800-m world championship in Berlin by an astonishing two-second margin. Fellow competitors raised concerns about Semenya's masculine appearance, prompting track and field's governing body to order sex testing. The results have yet to be released, but the case focused attention on the challenges in balancing competition with an athlete...