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...career between the pipes, though it comes in a slightly different form. Because Martin’s highest level of competition, as accomplished as she was on the ice at the high school level, has been while playing roller hockey. In 2004-2005, she won a silver medal at the Roller Hockey World Championships with the U.S. National Team.In her home state of California, despite the high number of current American winter Olympians who hail from the area (13—third most for any state in the country), warmer weather sports like roller hockey prevail.Martin took up roller hockey...

Author: By Gabriel M. Velez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Rookie Goalie Bails Out Women's Hockey | 2/9/2006 | See Source »

...just makes her fight harder.“I identify with my mom in that way—in fighting for what you want and what you believe in, and having a sense of equality about that,” she says.While Cahow and her teammates seek a gold medal, victory is theirs the moment they step...

Author: By April B. Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Step Aside, Mr. Gretzky | 2/8/2006 | See Source »

SASHA COHEN - Will have to fend off Russian skater Irina Slutskaya for Olympic medal SACHA BARON COHEN - Has to fend off libel-suit threats from the government of Kazakhstan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 13, 2006 | 2/5/2006 | See Source »

...like, 'I don't want her to do well.' But she was on the sled." How inconvenient. Drivers swap brakemen like prom dates; soap opera surrounds the U.S. women's team like a Lake Placid cold front. Before the 2002 Olympics, driver Jill Bakken, the eventual gold-medal winner, jilted Rohbock, her partner of three years, for Vonetta Flowers. Jean Prahm dumped her best friend, Jen Davidson, for Gea Johnson. Now Prahm has picked Flowers, and after switching to the driver position, Rohbock is teamed with roommate Valerie Fleming. Bakken was back after a two-year hiatus, but lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Close Encounters | 2/4/2006 | See Source »

...things went right for Apolo Ohno during his 2002 Winter Olympic debut. On the ice he won gold and silver medals in short-track speed skating, propelling the popularity of the hypnotically dangerous sport, in which athletes whirl around a 111-m oval with no lane markers while wearing 25-cm razor blades on their feet. Off the ice his wisp of a soul patch and X Games 'tude helped him dominate the event known as Olympic buzz. He was so popular in Salt Lake City that even female fans wore fake Ohno patches; afterward he was named...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Short Memories | 2/4/2006 | See Source »

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