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With upwards of a few hundred thousand spectators expected this weekend, plenty of people will the get the chance to watch the Olympic medallist in action...
...short clinched it, the Americans hurled their gloves and piled up at the pitchers mound. But the sport's officials might not join the celebration. Softball has an America problem - Team USA hasn't lost in a year, and since only four countries (Australia, Japan, this year's bronze medallist, and China) are true competitors, the International Olympics Committee has threatened to drop the sport, though it's safe for Beijing in 2008. U.S. players don't understand the concerns. "I can't imagine being good at something as a bad thing," says catcher Stacey Nuveman, who also homered...
...field of dreams; a shot-put Nirvana." That's the description of this year's shot-put competition, held in the ancient home of the Games in the stadium at Olympia by U.S. silver medallist Adam Nelson on Wednesday. The fact that he'd just suffered a heartbreaking loss of the gold medal to Ukrainian Yuriy Bilonog in the finals seconds did nothing to dim his enthusiasm for an event whose venue captured the magic of the Athens Olympiad. And it was shared by competitors, coaches and spectators...
Olympic gold and silver medallist. Ivy League Player of the Year. Four-time Patty Kazmeier Award nominee, presented to the best player in collegiate women’s hockey. Four-time ECAC Player of the Week this year alone. Top 10 nationally in goals, points and assists. Anchor of the nation’s best defense—allowing 1.17 goals per game...
What Cole had done was place second in the 1650-yard freestyle (14:39.71), finishing two seconds behind 2000 Olympic medallist Erik Vendt (14:37.48) and with a time ten seconds better than his previous Harvard record (14:49.48). Cole’s second-place finish is the best showing by a Harvard swimmer on the national stage since David Berkoff ’89 won the 100-yard backstroke at the 1989 NCAA Tournament...