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...This year has been a Power outage. They are 3-17-1 for the season, with a lock on last place. For Milbrett, a gold medal Olympian and the leading scorer on the 1999 World Cup champions, it's a new experience. She doesn't accept that loser rep: "We've been saying, and I'm still saying, that this is a better team than our results indicate. We outplayed five teams and ended up losing. That's why dealing with the record is a little easier." Soccer can be that way. The Power don't seem dispirited as they...
...these “games” said more about Britain’s perilous future than they did about her inglorious past. Australia, the former penal colony, topped the medal table. Like their criminal ancestors, the Aussies outgunned the weak natives. This time, gold medals awaited them instead of exile. Although it is doubtful whether anyone would have protested too vigorously if they had been ordered to leave grim and grimy Manchester...
Talk about a story with legs. Back in February, the Salt Lake City Winter Olympic Games were rocked by allegations that Canadian pairs skaters Jamie Sale and David Pelletier had been robbed of their rightful gold medal. Both pairs were eventually given gold, but by then the scandal had outraged the world - Oh, the shock of it! Dirty dealings in figure skating! Eventually, interest waned, until this week's exciting tidbit emerged: the Russian mob may have been behind the Olympic scandal from the start. So for resurrecting this tale of ignominy, our person of the week is Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov...
...never rowed with the freshman boat until it approached the starting line. The end result of his debut was one of the closest races of the tournament—a three-quarter length victory over Oxford Brookes. The win gave O’Donoghue a rare second Henley medal...
Lewis and Clark gave the Jefferson Peace Medal to Indian chiefs they met as a symbol of friendship from their new "chief" in Washington