Word: nagano
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Mleczko was one of a trio of major competitors in Nagano, Japan this February, all of whom are either Harvard alumni or current students. Sandra Whyte '92 accompanied Mleczko on the United States' gold medal-winning hockey team in the 1998 games, also playing a key role for the squad...
Eldredge too had high hopes of overcoming what seemed like a curse. After falling out of a simple double Axel and finishing 10th at the 1992 Olympics in Albertville, he failed even to qualify for a spot at Lillehammer, owing to a bout with the flu. Nagano looked promising. Eldredge ranked third after the short program, but bad luck returned to escort him through the long one. He turned two triple-triple jump combinations into triple-doubles, singled one triple Axel and fell while trying to insert another at the end. Watching the performance, his training partner and friend, gold...
...Prior to Nagano, Eldredge had indicated that he would turn pro after the 1998 world championships. But his disappointing showing last week may compel him to give the Olympics another go in four years. None of the other top finishers have revealed their plans for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. But there will be new faces to watch, particularly America's Michael Weiss, who attempted a quadruple Lutz at Nagano. He failed, but he is still the only person ever to try that jump in competition, and by week's end he had climbed from 11th...
...Brind'Amour stepped off the bullet train in Nagano and took a hard check to the ground. But the crush of Japanese fans was actually gunning for Wayne Gretzky, who, after fleeing to the Team Canada bus, said, "I've been in a lot of places, but I've never seen anything like this." It wasn't supposed to go this way for the Great One. The plan was to divert the hockey-deprived country with Paul Tetsuhiko Kariya, who, at least in Japan, is the most famous hockey player ever...
TARA LIPINSKI was so at ease last week in Nagano, Japan, that a number of insiders were marking her as the favorite for the Ladies Figure Skating gold medal, even though MICHELLE KWAN has bragging rights as U.S. National champion. The two rivals, together with another former American champ, NICOLE BOBEK, are part of the team that has the Olympics murmuring, "U.S. medals sweep." That kind of talk isn't, of course, going down well with other competitors. Russia's MARIA BUTYRSKAYA settled on her target a month ago, sniffing, "Lipinski made mistakes in many competitions this season...