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Think of what got Harvard and the rest of the nation so excited when Paul Wylie '91 excelled at February's Winter Olympic Games: a silver medal. Now magnify that by three--three silver medals, that is. And two bronzes...
Dunne admits that her initial attempt at racing at age nine, was not exactly silver medal quality. "I heard the timekeeper cheer, and I crashed into him," she recalls of her debut in Wisconsin...
Besides enjoying an unparalleled record ofsuccess in her sport-she was the only visuallyimpaired skier to win a medal at the disabledskiing Olympic in 1988--Dunne also foundcompanionship off the slopes. Dunne has enjoyed,she says, a great deal of camaraderie with some ofthe other skiers, something that has at leastpartly made up for the lack of a "normal"childhood due to her intense training...
...International Center of Photography gave him its Infinity Award for Journalism. Last week he stopped briefly in New York City between overseas assignments, as he put it, "to rest and pay some bills" -- and also to pick up the most prestigious award of all: the Robert Capa Gold Medal, given by the Overseas Press Club for "best photographic reporting from abroad requiring exceptional courage and enterprise...
...There would be nothing better than to win an NBA championship and then go to Barcelona and win the gold medal," said Drexler, the star guard of the Portland Trail Blazers who, along with Duke's Christian Laettner--the only college player--was added to the U.S. Olympic team on yesterday...