Word: golds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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AMERICAN WOMEN Slap-shot Cinderellas showed tons of heart in snaring the gold. And they didn't trash their rooms...
CANADIAN MEN The old line "We'd win the gold if our pros were there" will never be uttered again...
Perhaps the most rousing moment came when the U.S. women's hockey team beat four-time world champion Canada, 3-1, to take an emotional gold. The two games between the fierce enemies introduced fans to a style of fluency and electrifying intensity that put many an NHL game to shame, as well as to such new words as "underwomanned." Though body checking is not allowed in women's hockey, it would have been hard to tell that to any of the bodies flying across the ice, while Maple Leafs clashed with Stars and Stripes all around the packed arena...
...penalties in a preliminary game, on Valentine's Day, that officially meant nothing. But when the American women beat her team for the second time in three days, Miller looked up and "had a feeling of joy going through my body. Because what I realized was an Olympic gold medal was being hung around the neck of a female hockey player...
...competitors muttered about clap skates and luge "booties" and strips on speed skaters' uniforms that helped them fly. But all the machinery in the world couldn't erase the piercing human moments: Harada, with his back against the temporary wall of a cafeteria, after his failure to win gold in the normal hill jump, a copy of the results sheet in a glove that said JAPAN; or Cammi Granato, the captain of the U.S. women's hockey team, after a black-lacquer disk with gold dust was hung around her neck, simply holding her face in her hands, overwhelmed...