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...technical" events--slalom and giant slalom--Kristina Koznick, the prodigal child of the women's team, is returning home in great form. And Picabo Street has once again been surgically reassembled to contest the downhill. One more sensational crash, though, and she will have to be sold for parts...
...halfpipe competition, with its music and its crowd interaction, could become the beach volleyball of the Winter Olympics. It's a TV-friendly contest, and the U.S. should dominate. The halfpipe is a U-shaped channel carved in the snow in which riders do lip tricks and airs, including rotations, before landing. Amplitude, the height of each trick off the lip of the pipe, is key, as is style...
When Stephen Goldsmith was 17, he won a high school oratory contest with a speech on "Why I want to be a black transsexual." It was an act of defiance. Goldsmith, who is Jewish, remembers being roughed up almost every week on the way home from school in Salt Lake City when his classmates would turn off to go to the nearby Mormon church and he would continue on straight to go home. Goldsmith, now 47, is the city planner for Salt Lake City, hired by the controversial new mayor, Rocky Anderson, to revitalize the downtown area, block strip-mall...
Powered by two-goal performances from sophomore forwards Tyler Kolarik and Tim Pettit, the Crimson took control of the game midway through the first period, ensuring the outcome of the contest from that point forward...
...Harvard was going to drop one contest on last weekend’s road trip, it was assumed the Crimson would falter in New York City against the Lions, who had yet to lose at Levien Gym this year...