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...butterfly, highest honors went to Penn State's Kristen Elias. Her time of 2:01.93 put her in the Eastern record book, eclipsing the old mark of 2:02.18. Harvard's Jenny Meyer pulled out a fifth-place finish of 2:04.68, good for a Harvard record although only .18 of a second ahead of teammate Nicole Engh's sixth-place time...
...fellow freshman John Weisbrod recorded a pair of goals apiece to lead the Crimson to a stunning victory in front of 3600 screaming Saint fans in Appleton Arena. Last Weekend, Harvard dropped home games to Vermont and RPI and needed twin victories on the road this weekend to finish first in the league...
...typical Matti Nykanen performance: an explosive takeoff, an eerily long floating descent and -- as of right -- a first-place finish. The boyish Nykanen, 24, punched the air in triumph and seemed to ignore the awed congratulations of Pavel Ploc and Jiri Malec, the Czechs who finished a distant second and third. The decisive win in the 70-meter competition gave Nykanen his first gold at Calgary, with a shot at an unprecedented second and third this week in the weather-delayed 90-meter individual and team events. It also made him the first jumper in some 50 years to finish...
When he fell the second time, on the straightaway of Thursday's 1,000-meter event, just 200 meters short of the finish, it was even more stunning, as if he had been forced down by sorrow alone. Watching from the gallery, Brother Mike, 24, had just assured a sister: "Dan's made it through the toughest turns. He's fine now." At the 600-meter mark, Jansen was .31 sec. faster than any of the competition. Then his right skate "caught an edge" -- hit the ice on the side instead of the bottom of the blade -- sending...
...spent pleasant evenings last week playing free video games with the boys and girls of winter and precarious days sliding down the refrigerated luge track on his back at speeds pushing 70 m.p.h. "People were looking down at me, waving and ringing cowbells," he says with wonder. "At the finish they were chanting...