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Wang Kan’s teammate, sophomore Steven Geloneck, qualified with the top time in the 60 meter dash but finished second overall in the event. The same thing had happened one week earlier to Geloneck in the Battle of Beantown...
...women’s side, the freshmen had the most success. Olivia Weeks won the triple jump event, with a 12.10-meter leap. Fellow first-year Mary Hirst took the title in the high jump, with a 1.65-meter bound, while her teammate, junior Dina Emde, finished second. To top it off, freshman Ashtynn Baltimore and sophomore Christine Reed also finished one-two in the 60-meter hurdles, with respective times of 8.88 and 8.95 seconds. It was an improvement for both, as Baltimore finished second and Reed seventh in the same event last weekend...
After finishing first in the 500-meter dash a week ago, freshman Carlyle Davis finished second to Princeton’s Danielle Glaeser Saturday in the 400-meter dash. Harvard junior Brian Hill, who won the men’s 500-meter dash at the Battle of Beantown, finished second on Saturday to the Tigers’ Russell Dinkins in the one mile run. Freshman Jeremy Gilmour, coming off a first place finish in the 3000-meter run, finished fourth in the one-mile...
While other viewers of long-track speed skating may see monotony, the Dutch see rhythm, tension and athletic grace. "Boring?" asks Diederik Peereboom, a Dutch native who works as a consultant in Brussels, who was desperately looking for a ticket to the 5,000-meter event. "Well, we think your football is boring. They stand around for three hours for what, 15 minutes of action?" (Watch a video of Olympic athletes training...
...also helps the Dutch spirits that their skaters bring home the hardware. Kramer won the 5,000-meter race on Saturday with a time of 6 min. 14.60 sec., setting a new Olympic record and nabbing his first gold. (American Chad Hedrick, the defending Olympic champion in this event, finished 11th; Shani Davis, the favorite in the middle-distance races, came in 12th.) Holland has now won 25 speed-skating golds in its Olympic history, tied for second with Norway behind the United States, which has 28, as the country with the most titles in the sport. Kramer is also...