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...sport in which sliders can approach speeds reaching 90 m.p.h. The speed is part of its allure, and the rush of the event is what attracts audiences. However, throughout this week's training runs, athletes have voiced their concern about the safety of the Whistler track, which is the fastest in the world; last February, a German athlete was clocked traveling more than 95 m.p.h. during a luge World Cup test event. Over the past week, about a dozen athletes have crashed during luge training here. A Romanian Olympian was briefly knocked unconscious, and the gold medal favorite, Armin Zoeggeler...
...strokes haven’t changed that much. The bathing suit obviously was one of the biggest changes. I went to school in ’84 where the less suit the better; you would shave your body down and grease your body up and that was the fastest thing. Now the suit’s the fastest thing...
...Life was difficult. I didn't know how things worked and I was lost," recalls Kang, who escaped to South Korea in 2002 via Thailand. "I realized that [marrying a South Korean] was the fastest way to create a new life...
...don’t officially count for Carnival scores. But the individual placement impacts athletes’ starting position in Carnival Races. Thus, the entire collegiate field stays the extra day to try to secure a strong starting position, which will allow them to ski when the conditions are fastest. The day is also an opportunity for reserves to see competitive action, which makes the field bigger and deeper than it is in the official season races...
...Perhaps the worst part, however, is that deficits have risen the fastest in the euro-zone group, which requires members to limit their budget shortfalls to 3% of GDP. Many of these countries began exceeding that threshold before the financial crisis began and then went well above it after the crash. E.U. countries collectively spent $1.5 billion to save their vulnerable banking sectors and a further $200 billion in stimulus funding to revive their economies. Although the latter helped the 16-nation euro zone exit the recession in the middle of 2009, it also lifted already lofty deficit levels even...