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...Canada's highs and lows at these 20th Winter Olympics, ponder a seven-hour span last Wednesday. Most Canadians awoke to news that cross-country skier Chandra Crawford of Canmore, Alta., had pocketed gold in the 1.1-km sprint, a bit of an improvement on her 46th-place finish at the 2005 world championship. Then Winnipeg's Cindy Klassen and Ottawa's Kristina Groves netted gold and silver, respectively, in speedskating. That made Klassen the first Canadian to win four medals at a single Olympics (she would add a fifth on Saturday). Three hours later, Canada survived the bumpy...
...average person might find finishing ninth for the fifth time in as many competitions disappointing. But not the Harvard ski team, which did just that this weekend at the Eastern Championships. The Crimson has met with many challenges this season, aside from challenging strong competition. Last weekend’s event brought on punishing weather, and this weekend brought more trouble, as the Alpine and nordic teams were forceably split from each other. The Alpine team remained in the championship’s usual location at the Middlebury Snow Bowl and the nordic team traveled to Craftsbury, Vt., to compete...
...weeks prior, the Harvard Women’s swimming and diving team suffered a disappointing loss to its old rival in the Ivy Championship meet during the weekend.The Crimson swam on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday in hopes of winning its second Ivy Title in a row but ended up finishing second with 1445 points to the Tigers’ 1580 points.“[Princeton] had some fantastic swims,” sophomore Lindsay Hart said. “We were just a little bit off and we don’t really know why. We had some illnesses...
Even with a reduced showing, the Harvard men’s swimming and diving team achieved solid results at the ECAC Open Swimming and Diving Championships this weekend, finishing ninth out of 18 teams. At the annual meet in Pittsburgh, Penn., the Crimson was helped by sophomore Brendan Mitchell, who tallied several strong individual performances and did his part for the team in the relay. Although teams are allowed 17 swimmers to compete, Harvard consisted of only nine swimmers. The rest of the Crimson team stayed behind in Cambridge to prepare for next week’s Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming...
...three-weapon crown in a dominant fashion. Additionally, Harvard took home the six-weapon title for having the best men and women’s teams combined. The Crimson men began the meet by totaling 71 wins, good enough for 156 points. The closest opponent was Penn, which finished with 125 points. Columbia, Princeton, and Brandeis composed the rest of the top five, in that order. Senior David Jackus took home the gold medal in the indivdual saber by beating teammate and junior Tim Hagamen 15-11 in the championship bout. It was in the team saber events, in fact...