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This year's favorite in the unofficial popularity contest is Isaac Menyoli. The 29-year-old cross-country skier from Buea in snowless Cameroon - his country's first-ever Winter Olympian - wants the ballyhoo that comes with being bad. But unlike the crowd-pleasing losers of Games past, he doesn't want all the attention. He actually has something other than himself to promote: AIDS education...
...side, the Finns have Janne Lahtela and Mikko Ronkainen, who dominated last year's tour but have struggled with injuries this year. In aerials, which has a strong gymnastics component, it's no surprise that Eastern European countries will contest. Belarus features top women's aerialist Alla Tsuper, as well as the men's No. 2, Alexei Grichin. It is a surprise that Australia, hardly a ski power, has a strong contender in Jacqui Cooper. Canada, an aerial force, will offer Veronika Bauer and Jeff Bean. Although the U.S. will dominate the snowboarding half-pipe, its riders are basically uninterested...
...tale is a beauty. A national kickboxing champ, he won a 1994 push contest sponsored by the bobsled federation. Suddenly a guy who had barely seen a snowflake was in Lake Placid but needed a sled. To raise money to buy one, he entered the 1995 Ultimate Fighting Championship in Japan, where he faced wrestler Koichiro Kimura in the first round. "It was a hungry crowd, and the extreme-fear factor was really high," Hays recalls. Channeling the adrenaline, he beat Kimura. Hays won $10,000, bought a sled and, once on the track, discovered that "the fight had helped...
...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...
With Harvard expected to win easily over Dartmouth, Wednesday’s contest was welcomed for the opportunity to practice in competitive play. The match against No. 2 Trinity is the biggest competition of every year for No. 1 Harvard...