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...television cameras panned slowly across the podium. One by one, the young athletes came into view, bowing to receive the medals that will forever distinguish them as Olympic participants, that will serve as lifetime tokens of their two-week trip to the Winter Games in Turin in the Italian Alps, to the peak of competition in women’s hockey, to the heights of athletic immortality. For Harvard viewers, especially those familiar with the recent exploits of Katey Stone’s women’s hockey teams, there were a few familiar visages among the bunch. There...
...Canada?s 4-1 victory over Sweden for the Olympic gold medal in women?s ice hockey came in an anticlimactic final. Sweden?s upset of No. 2-seed Team U.S.A. in the semifinal was described widely as a Lake Placid moment for women?s hockey. The Swedes caught the Americans on a bad day, maybe looking ahead to the Canada game. The result effectively rendered the gold-medal match as predictable as finding pizza in Torino. Tickets for the gold medal game were going for all of 3 Euros on Monday...
...After the Americans defeated the Finns for the bronze medal earlier Monday, Smith referred to a two-tier reality in women's hockey: Canada and U.S.A. on one plateau, everyone else scrambling to catch up. In fact, there are three tiers: Canada and the U.S., Finland and Sweden, then the rest...
...Canadians prevail, men's hockey gold would cap what is shaping up to be one of the country's finest winter performances ever. There were certainly high expectations. The Canadian Olympic Committee (coc) brazenly targeted third place in the overall medal standings--likely requiring 25 medals, compared with the 17 that Canada took home four years ago. Canada might not make it, especially after several failure-to-convert performances in the Games' opening days. As the unfulfilled expectations initially piled up--as when all four female snowboarders failed to qualify for the half-pipe final, or when Emily Brydon finished...
...last Thursday, Canada suddenly came alive, winning four medals: in speedskating (silvers in both men's and women's team pursuit), women's skeleton (Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards, bronze) and men's figure skating (Jeffrey Buttle, bronze). Buttle's medal was particularly welcome, as he had fallen during his short program. "It's unbelievable," he said. "I would have never thought I could come back." Then came a one-two finish Friday in the skeleton for Calgary firefighter Duff Gibson and World Cup leader Jeff Pain. Gibson, 39, who immediately retired from his sport, has the distinction of being the oldest...