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...First, he lunged for the line, and grabbed the silver. Then, he had no complaints. "That's short track." Third, he congratulated Bradbury as the rightful winner. Fourth, he taped up his stitched-up leg - treated in the interim by none other than Eric Heiden, living speed skate legend and this year's team doctor - and proved that even this slacker generation can spit nails and get back on the track. Fifth, he smiled and kept smiling. Sixth, he was - very evidently and very consistently - completely genuine. This guy is Favre, he's Agassi, he's Tiger, he's Namath...
...year-old friend of Jean's younger sister. Then Saturday, Gea Johnson busted a hamstring on a training run. This time, Racine made a strange decision: rather than putting athletic potential above friendship and replace Johnson with a healthy alternate, she would keep her on and hope the leg healed. It didn't. "Imagine someone stabbing you with a knife and scraping it down your leg, deeper and deeper and deeper with every step you take, and it being on fire at the same time," Johnson told TIME of how it felt to sprint while pushing about 400lbs of sled...
Hungary continues to insist the effort is benign. Kinga Gal, a senior official helping to oversee the program, says Budapest's main concern is illegal immigration from poorer neighbors once Hungary joins the E.U., as is expected by 2004. Providing a leg-up to ethnic Hungarians in countries outside an expanded E.U., she says, might dissuade them from rushing the border in years ahead. But analysts point out that Hungary may also be using the law as a way of importing cheap labor to make up for a shortage of skilled workers...
...gold streak. Yagudin, who trains in the U.S., is a passionate performer and is eager to redeem his fifth-place finish in Nagano. Plushenko is just as talented but far less polished. While his music and choreography are often disjointed, he is the only male to lasso one leg up and behind his head and hold this position during a spin...
Harvard (12-8, 5-3 Ivy League) took the first leg of its weekend road trip, 55-52, over the Lions (10-12, 3-5) Friday night on Harvey’s three-pointer at the buzzer. The next night, however, the Crimson fell 63-62 to Ivy doormat Cornell (4-17, 1-7) and significantly hurt its chances for an Ivy title...