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...current Olympic and world figure skating judge, is no stranger to the sport's controversial side. While judging at the Nagano Winter Games in 1998 she blew the whistle on behind-the-scenes vote trading after Canadian ice dancers Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz were denied a medal. She was initially cited for national bias by the International Skating Union, but after she produced a taped phone solicitation from a Ukrainian judge the Court of Arbitration for Sport overturned the citation and suspended the implicated judges...
Three-hundredths of a second. That's what it came down to, and the difference made Casey FitzRandolph the first American in 22 years to win a speedskating gold medal in the men's 500-meter event. "I was ready," said FitzRandolph, "But there is a little bit of luck from upstairs to end up on the right side of the three-hundredths...
...went almost exactly the right way: in the first of the two 500-meter skates that each competitor must execute in the competition, FitzRandolph set an Olympic record with a time of 34.42 while Canadian Jeremy Wotherspoon, considered a definite medal favorite, didn't finish his race. That left FitzRandolph in first place coming into Tuesday's second run; Shimizu second. Twenty-four hours to think about what might be accomplished. "The last 24 hours haven't been too relaxing," he admitted. He and Carpenter, who skated the third best time on Monday, retreated to living quarters that they...
...cameras, save for those operated by Europeans, were trained firmly on Street and her all-American appeal. Bronze medal winner Renate Goetschl, of Austria, said she wasn't at all surprised by the attention given to a skier who finished 1.61 seconds off gold medal pace. "It was her last Olympic Games and her last race, and she is one of the big favorites here," she said. "Everybody wants to help her and to cheer...
...wonderful day for Carole, a great day for France." Even though the downhill was her final competitive race before retirement, Street said she wasn't at all disappointed in her 16th placing. "In my eyes and in my heart, qualifying for the Olympics felt like winning a gold medal," she said. And the country acted as though...