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Olympic downhill ski races are unkind to favorites. At Nagano in 1998, Jean-Luc Crétier took advantage of a spectacular crash by Austrian great...
Olympic downhill ski races are unkind to favorites. At Nagano in 1998, Jean-Luc Crétier took advantage of a spectacular crash by Austrian great...
...more serious problem is that the close ties of most judges to the national skating federations that name them to competitions lead some to act like operatives for their home-team skaters. At several competitions leading up to the '98 Winter Games in Nagano, Jean Senft, a Canadian Olympic judge, was disturbed to have been privy to conversations in which judges agreed in advance on the outcomes. When she complained to skating officials, they demanded proof. So Senft brought a tape recorder with her to the Nagano games. On the day of the pairs competitions, she surreptitiously taped a phone...
...five athletes with Harvard ties playing hockey in Salt Lake City, only A.J. Mleczko ’97-’99 had scored an Olympic goal in Nagano. Now all five have scored in this year’s Olympics...
Weinstein, who placed 17th in the 500 meters at the 1998 Nagano Olympics, only qualified for the relay team this time around. Ohno and Smith are the U.S. entrants in each of the three individual speed-skating events—the 500, the 1,000, and the 1,500. Ohno and Smith both advanced in their 1,000 heats, and Smith set an Olympic record in the process...