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Shani Davis has always set his own course. While most boys in his South Side Chicago neighborhood were trying to shoot hoops like Michael Jordan, Davis was lacing on skates and speeding around an ice rink. His buddies teased him for dedicating himself to a sport that seemed so white...
Speed skating is still largely a white sport, and he has yet to get rich from it, but Davis, 23, the first African American to qualify for a U.S. Olympic speed-skating team, is now a gold-medal favorite for the 1,000-m and 1,500-m races at...
...potential to be a big sport," says Davis--who, although he is relatively unknown in the U.S., has a broader following in Europe, where the sport is popular. The U.S. Speedskating officials, he complains, "don't want to grow in a way where they have five or six Shani Davises." The organization's officials say they are disappointed with the comments but will support Davis at the Olympics...
Davis first went on the ice when he was 6. His mother Cherie worked as a secretary for a lawyer who happened to be a speed-skating official and suggested that her son try the sport. Within two years, Davis was winning regional titles. Now 6 ft. 2 in., he...
According to Marshall Goldman, associate director of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard, when prosecuting oligarchs, Putin went “too far yet not far enough.” He went after the oligarchs that did not support him, like Mikhail Khodorkovsky, yet suspiciously overlooked...