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Forget that hockey match the U.S. won 22 years ago in Lake Placid. The real miracle on ice happened last week, when Australian Steven Bradbury, 28, won his country's first-ever Winter Olympic gold medal. With only one lap to go in the men's short track speed skating 1,000-m final, Bradbury, who'd never had a world-class solo victory, was trailing far behind the other four skaters. Then the pack crashed and Bradbury cruised past the carnage from worst to first. "I was like, 'Hang on a minute, I think I just won,'" Bradbury told...
...three knee operations in the off-season, the 2001 overall World Cup champion was going to have to fight to be fit. Last week her fears proved unfounded as she became the first alpine skier to win four Olympic medals at a single Games. And three of those were gold...
...course with fresh snow covering soft ice. It was so difficult that 30 competitors failed to finish in either first or second runs. Kostelic had what she said were "two bad runs." They may not have been up to her exacting standards, but they were good enough for the gold. Then on Friday came the history-making race, the giant slalom. Two good runs gave her victory by an astonishing 1.32 sec. "It's great," she said of her historic win, "but someone is going to break that record soon." The odds are that the someone will be Kostelic herself...
...Irina Slutskaya, a favorite in ladies' figure skating. Dodging the love tokens strewn on the ice from Kwan's fans was the least of Slutskaya's worries. Because of the skate order, the 23-year-old Muscovite's performance would determine whether Kwan or Sarah Hughes glided away with gold. If Slutskaya finished ahead of Kwan in the long program, Hughes would win; if she finished behind Kwan, Kwan would...
...Hughes' gold, and while she was not happy with her scores for presentation, she was thrilled to be on the podium. Just two years ago, she considered retiring when she failed to qualify for the World Championships. And now? "I feel like a star...