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Jean Senft, a current Olympic and world figure skating judge, is no stranger to the sport's controversial side. While judging at the Nagano Winter Games in 1998 she blew the whistle on behind-the-scenes vote trading after Canadian ice dancers Shae-Lynn Bourne and Victor Kraatz were denied a medal. She was initially cited for national bias by the International Skating Union, but after she produced a taped phone solicitation from a Ukrainian judge the Court of Arbitration for Sport overturned the citation and suspended the implicated judges...
...produced plenty of wonderful women's skiers and athletes, but few of them want to spend hours giving interviews and spending time in the bleachers. It is also unlikely that anyone relishes the attention more, and copes with it quite as well, as the Super G gold medallist from Nagano...
...women's halfpipe, competitors will have to put together at least a 540 rotation, as well as one or more inverts, if they want a medal. Nagano bronze medalist Shannon Dunn-Downing, 29, has been pushing the envelope with 720s and upside-down maneuvers. But Kelly Clark, 18, is the future of women's snow-boarding. The height and energy of her tricks are unparalleled, and with a clean run she is nearly unbeatable...
...last August it has been legal for the first time to advertise liquor. According to Governor Leavitt, there will be 1,305 places to buy a drink "within the confines of the Olympic area"--twice as many places as in the two previous Winter Olympics venues of Lillehammer and Nagano combined, he says. And the clean, crime-free, wholesome society envisioned by the founders of the Mormon church produces spike-haired, nihilistic punks (depicted in the movie SLC Punk!), black-clad goths and the highest rate of Prozac consumption in the country. Despite the strong antipathy of the Mormon church...
Short-track speed-skater Dan Weinstein ’03-’04, a member of the U.S. 5,000-meter relay team, is also a Nagano veteran on leave from Harvard...