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their athletes. Indeed, when Friesinger finally won her medal, her sponsor, the insurance company Deutscher Herold, laid on free beer in her hometown of Inzell in southern Germany...
...Koreans demanded that the referees' ruling be reversed and the gold medal be given to Kim, "the athlete who finished first." They even announced plans to file a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City against the referees...
Equally contentious were the Russians, who threatened to boycott the closing ceremony. Russian Olympic Committee president Leonid Tyagachev claimed that Olympic officials had treated Larissa Lazutina, a nine-time Olympic medal winner, unfairly when they disqualified her from the 4x5-km cross-country relay after she failed a blood test administered just prior to competition. The Russians, who have had a poor showing at the Games, also complained that their hockey team was heavily penalized and that their skaters, including silver medalist Irina Slutskaya, were harshly judged. In Moscow, politicians, reflecting public anger, expressed outrage. Sports Minister Pavel Rozhkov demanded...
When curling was introduced as a medal sport in the 1998 Olympics, the comments were often condescending and occasionally cruel. Chess on ice, geeks with brooms. Yet the sport proved surprisingly popular. Television viewers loved the game in Britain. In Canada, of course, curling vies with hockey as the national winter sport and draws huge TV audiences. When Canadian women won an Olympic gold medal in 1998, no one was surprised. When the men lost, the nation was in shock...
This year, the Canadian women were forced to play for the bronze when Britain beat them in the semifinals. The British went on to defeat the Swiss in an exciting (honest) gold-medal match that went down to the last stone. All the members of the British team hail from Scotland, which is appropriate since the sport traces its origins to the 16th century and frozen Scottish lochs. The 19-kg stones used in competition are still cut from Scottish granite...