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Last September Janica Kostelic wondered if she would be skiing well enough to make any impression at the Olympics. After 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...
...WHAT JUDGES LOOK FOR In the layback, an arched back and well-placed free leg with the knee and foot parallel to the ice. Points are deducted for spins that are not centered or for failure to complete the specified number of rotations. In the short program, judges start counting the required eight turns once the skater assumes the full layback position. In the long program, the preparatory windup rotations are counted toward a total of six turns. Combination spins, in which the skater changes body position and sometimes even the spinning foot, are required elements in the short program...
...compelling of the Games. She and her brother, who also competed here, grew up poor in Zagreb when it was part of Yugoslavia. Their dad drove them to the hill when he could. They became champions, but Janica's career was constantly interrupted by injury; she's had three knee surgeries in the past few years. She came in here hoping for perhaps one medal, any shade. She left with four, three of them gold. No skier had ever won so many and no woman had ever finished first that often (only Jean Claude Killy in 1968 and Tony Sailer...
...He’s very much a person who would not have a knee-jerk reaction to ‘ROTC does this, so we should bar it,’” one friend says...
...Cambridge Planning Board approved Harvard’s proposal to construct a tunnel underneath Cambridge Street that would link the two buildings that will compose the new Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS). The latest skirmish over a tunnel has been another example of Cambridge activists’ knee-jerk disapproval of all Harvard construction, even when the community stands to benefit...