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...Bears would go home with third place.“It was an exciting battle for the two of us,” Saretsky said.Anchoring the 4x800 squad, freshman Jamie Olson legged out Cornell’s senior Anjelica Gregory in the homestretch to secure the gold medal for the Crimson and putting the women’s squad ahead of Brown.But without representation in the 4x400, Harvard could only watch as the Bears relay team beat out Yale by four hundredths of a second to take fourth place and move ahead of the Crimson by a point.Junior Becky Christensen...
...helped Harvard win the NCAA Team Championship in 2006.Cross’s team-oriented attitude will be a valuable this August when she and three other American foilists compete in the team foil event. According to Cross, the best shot she has at winning a medal is in this team competition. “My three teammates and I have been training and working together very closely for the past few seasons, and we have a very good rapport,” Cross says. “Our styles are also very different, but they complement each other very...
...only represent your country and perform and try to win a gold meal, and to have a political view," said U.S. women's soccer star Abby Wambach. "Politicians should be dealing with this stuff, not the athletes," added Paul Hamm, who will defend his all-around-gymnastics gold medal in Beijing. With a few exceptions, most U.S. athletes offered the same spin: We're going for the gold, leave politics alone...
...presumptuous to expect all Olympic athletes to follow in Carlos's footsteps, to whip out the Tibetan flag on the stand if they're lucky enough to get there. Or to model themselves after Joey Cheek, the U.S. speedskater who donated the $25,000 prize from his '06 gold medal to a project that aids Darfur refugees in Chad. (Cheek went on to co-found Team Darfur, a coalition of worldwide athletes committed to raising visibility for the situation in the Sudan. The group is quite light on big-name American summer Olympians...
Davies is no stranger to international competition. She’s been the stroke of the national eight for the last two years, leading the boat to a world record at last year’s World Championships. She was also part of the silver-medal-winning eight in Athens...