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...International Ice Hockey Federation, "you shouldn't be able to just grab a passport and represent a country at an event." Nonetheless, national rosters are full of ringers. Ice dancer Tanith Belbin was born in Canada and moved to the U.S. in 1998. A strong contender for a medal with her American partner Ben Agosto, Belbin finally got her U.S. passport by a special amendment to a congressional act on Dec. 31, 2005, a day before the U.S. Olympic Committee's deadline for eligibility - even though a parent of a rival ice dancer lobbied senators to oppose the bill...
...that is the point, after all, in spite of patriotic excess, overpowering wedding-banquet music and all sorts of anxiety. It is the refuge of sport that keeps athletes and fans coming back for the Olympics, summer or winteran exhilaration felt with the U.S.'s first gold medal on Saturday, won by Chad Hedrick in the men's 5,000m speedskating event. No matter what is said by Dante in his Inferno. For the occasion, his famous line should read, "Reclaim every hope, ye who enter here." Let the Games begin. 34 Team U.S.A.'s magic number to match...
...Winning isn't everything. It's just as important that we rub it in. Medal counts are a great, quantifiable way to say 'Yes, we're in an unpopular war, we're bitterly divided, and we're embroiled in scandal, but if you get all up in our bobsled grill, we'll bring the $%@# hammer down.'" --STEPHEN COLBERT...
...wore on, however, the pain only worsened, and Kwan said "The groin did not feel good at all." She began to realize that she might not be able to compete at the level needed to make the podium in Torino, much less capture the only gold medal that eludes her. "I don' t think in my heart I can be at my best," she said. "I have to be honest with what my body is feeling. At 2:15 (am), I thought I've got to do something about it, get it checked out, so I made some phone calls...
...Some calamity. Some sissy. Hedrick, the Texan known as "The Exception" for his twang and hard-charging lifestyle in an often stodgy Euro-centric sport, won America's first gold medal in Torino on Saturday, finishing the 5,000-meters in 6:14:68, just two-hundredths behind the Olympic record. "She gave me a little extra push today," Hedrick, a Houston native, says of Geraldine. "I could just feel it." One down, four to go: Hedrick, who is chasing Eric Heiden's record five speed skating gold medals, will next race on Wednesday, in the Team Pursuit...