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...that finish would hurt Lodwick in the other half of Nordic combined, the cross-country skiing event. The best jumper gets to start skiing first, with the others following in order of how they placed in the ski-jump; first person to cross the finish line wins. That meant that Lodwick would begin his cross-country ski two minutes and fifteen seconds behind the leader. Lodwick, a strong skier, likened his chances of a medal to that of a football team that is two touchdowns behind in the final quarter...
Like Sarah Hughes, Slutskaya is a natural and powerful jumper. If she can repeat her feat from last year's world championships of stringing together three jumps in a row, she may make history as the first Russian women's gold medalist...
...time high. At Salt Lake we'll have all kinds of sleds, cross-country races (some with guns!), ski jumps and ski-jump hybrids. In the past, these events have given us Jamaican bobsledders, hyperdrugged European ski champs and Eddie the Eagle, Great Britain's wonderfully woebegone ski jumper who had all of Calgary ducking for cover in 1988. The U.S. has won about a medal and a half...
Harvey got off a 30-foot jumper at the buzzer, but the magic of the night before was not to be relived, as the shot missed...
Leading 36-34 early in the second half, Harvard held the Big Red scoreless for more than six minutes as it slowly extended its lead. A pull-up jumper by freshman center Reka Cserny with 8:26 left gave Harvard its largest lead of the night at 53-39, and it looked like the the Crimson would easily close out another...