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While athletes tallied up their Olympic medals in Torino, an hour's journey east in Milan another kind of Olympics played out last week: the style games. And, just like Olympians, Italian fashion designers divide into opposing teams - but instead of medals, they compete for the attention and the dollars of press and buyers from all over the world. The prize could be an "It" handbag with the potential to add hundreds of thousands of dollars to the bottom line, or a winning collection that elevates a designer or a brand to the top of fashion's scoreboard. This time...
...fruity. Winemaker Vincent Desplat also produces an award-winning, semisweet wine, Pino de Bali. THAILAND: Siam Winery, www.siamwinery.com, began life producing blended wine and juice coolers, but lifted its game in recent years with the help of French winemaker Laurent Metge-Toppin. Siam's Chatemp label took a bronze medal at the International Wine & Spirits competition in 2001. JAPAN: With Asia's most developed winemaking industry, Japan has some 230 producers. Katsunuma is perhaps the best known. Its award-winning Château Mercian label, www.chateaumercian.com, comprises wines made from Japanese and European grapes...
...1990s, culminating with a no-medal performance at the 1998 Nagano Olympics, Hockey Canada analyzed the problems with the sport's development at home and adapted some European techniques to improve the style of play. But the Europeans learned how to hit like Canadians and yet continued to develop their own fluid game. During the Olympics, former Italian skiing sensation Alberto Tomba noted that hockey is identified with Canada in the same way as soccer is to Italy, and skiing to Austria. But today hockey is also a prominent sport in Finland, Sweden, Russia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and other...
...Summers won the John Bates Clark Medal, which is awarded every two years to an American economist under the age of 40 and is considered by some to be a precursor to the Nobel Prize...
...Salt Lake was a huge emotional victory because we hadn't beaten the U.S. all year in the lead-up games," said Wickenheiser, a three-time Olympian. "This time, the pressure to defend the gold medal was really different. Right now, I'm feeling relieved and exhausted...