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Harvard student Dan Weinstein ’03 -’04 and the rest of the U.S. Olympic men’s short-track speed-skaters made their first stride towards Olympic Gold with a first-place finish in a 5000-meter relay semifinal heat on Wednesday night...
Three-hundredths of a second. That's what it came down to, and the difference made Casey FitzRandolph the first American in 22 years to win a speedskating gold medal in the men's 500-meter event. "I was ready," said FitzRandolph, "But there is a little bit of luck from upstairs to end up on the right side of the three-hundredths...
...went almost exactly the right way: in the first of the two 500-meter skates that each competitor must execute in the competition, FitzRandolph set an Olympic record with a time of 34.42 while Canadian Jeremy Wotherspoon, considered a definite medal favorite, didn't finish his race. That left FitzRandolph in first place coming into Tuesday's second run; Shimizu second. Twenty-four hours to think about what might be accomplished. "The last 24 hours haven't been too relaxing," he admitted. He and Carpenter, who skated the third best time on Monday, retreated to living quarters that they...
...other track events, the Crimson may not have taken the top spots, but they racked up valuable points by placing in the top four. Both McGraw and freshman Tsitsi Gora placed for the Crimson in the 200, while Gora finished third in the 60-meter dash...
Only Harvard co-captain Carrie McGraw won a track event for the Crimson, as she held on for the win in a tightly contested 400-meter event...