Word: medalist
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...Florida swimmers that had established the NCAA and US Open records earlier in the year torched the field by over 1.5 seconds. The Harvard relay again came in 15th despite battling the nation’s best sprinters, including Gators freestyler Ryan Lochte—a 2004 Olympic gold medalist in the same event...
...Football Club. In another, they awkwardly practice handballing to the veteran players. They smack into tackling bags, play bullrush, and try to evade the tackles of lurking Saints. And they learn how to scoop balls off the turf and kick short into the muscled arms of two-time Brownlow medalist Robert Harvey...
Fine, you say. But how can Harvard dodgeball one up that trademark Olympic moment when a gold medalist stands upon the podium as his or her national anthem is played? Well, clearly you’ve never heard “The Final Countdown,” at once both the Quincy anthem and the turning point in last week’s tournament. Imagine watching the 1980 United States men’s hockey team falling behind the Soviets early in the first period, only to hear the Star Spangled Banner blaring over the sound system at Lake Placid...
Patricia Miranda, the bronze medalist at Athens in the 48-kg class, says her matches against males, which continued through Stanford, were invaluable to her development as an athlete and a woman. Wrestling offers "tremendous benefit for the female population," she says. "Girls learn the value of hard work, accountability and self-worth, things you can't get from magazines, boys or other girls." Although she won just once in her college career, she maintains that the only way for women to gain parity in the sport is through continued access to matches. If that means wrestling boys...
...favorite part of today?” Radcliffe senior and Olympic silver medalist Caryn Davies asked. “Not throwing...