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...first of Harvard's late goals came off the stick of senior forward Kate Nagle, with freshman forward Mina Pell assisting. Pell would also feature on Harvard's third goal, dished a pass to fellow freshman Maria van Wagenberg with just over a minute to play in the contest...
...DIED. MARIA TERESA SALISACHS-ROWE, 67, wife of I.O.C. head Juan Antonio Samaranch; reportedly of cancer; in Barcelona, just hours before Samaranch was to arrive from Sydney after presiding over the opening of the Olympics...
...ironically, even though these are definitely role models for your bigger-boned girls everywhere, weight is an issue among them. The winner of the 75-kg class, Colombia's Isabel Maria Urrutia, lifted the same amount as the silver and bronze medalists, but she was awarded the gold because she weighed less. She had lifted in a heavier class until recently when she went to Bulgaria to train. (Bulgaria must have lousy food; a lot of lifters go there to lose weight.) Urrutia won Colombia's first-ever Olympic gold medal in anything, which means she lost all that weight...
...categories, completed the hat trick for China. However, it was Bulgaria's Izabela Dragneva who won the first women's Olympic gold with a total lift of 190 kg in the 48-kg class. And surprise results gave Soraya Jimenez Mendivil Mexico's first weight-lifting gold, while Maria Isabel Urrutia will be taking home Colombia's first-ever Olympic medal. Jimenez Mendivil outlifted Korea's Asian champion, Song Hui Ri, in the 58-kg category after hot favorite Ri blew her chances of gold when, with two lifts remaining, she inexplicably failed to make a second attempt within...
...case that ignited a firestorm of protest throughout the state, Judge Maria Lopez recently sentenced a man who kidnapped and sexually assaulted an 11-year-old boy to one year of house arrest and five years probation. The public was justifiably outraged that the assailant, 22-year-old Charles Horton, will not spend any time behind bars...