Word: medalist
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While most judges are not corrupt, skating veterans say fixes have been a problem for years. "All titles are decided ahead of time," said France's Isabelle Duchesnay, a 1992 silver medalist in ice-dancing. If there's an upside to Skategate, it's the new momentum for reform and the raised hopes that all judging will be as clean as the golden performance of Sale and Pelletier...
Botterill said that it was hard to tell how well the team’s level of play against Russia, the 2001 World Championships bronze medalist, would translate against the United States, though she did say several of Canada’s goals were high-quality...
Canada, which features former Harvard linemates Jennifer Botterill ’02-’03 and Tammy Shewchuk ’00-’01, opened Group A on Monday with a 7-0 victory over Kazakhstan. Canada will take on 2001 World Championship bronze medalist Russia today at 1 p.m. Next up for the U.S. is China tomorrow night...
...Canadians will now turn their focus to tomorrow’s game with Russia, the 2001 World Championship bronze medalist who fell 3-2 to Sweden yesterday afternoon...
Jimmy Shea's was one of the feel-good stories in the run-up to the Games and is now one of the most poignant. His grandfather Jack was the oldest living U.S. Olympic gold medalist at 91, having won twice in speed skating at the 1932 Games. Jimmy's father Jim Sr. was a Nordic combined athlete--that's ski jumping followed by cross-country skiing--in the 1964 Olympics. Both men were to be in the stadium when Jimmy marched in, but Jack was killed in a car accident two weeks ago. Jimmy will slide with his grandfather...