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...Lodwick's finish is the best result the U.S. has achieved in the sport's 78-year Olympic history. His teammates, Matt Dayton and Bill Demong, came 18th and 19th respectively. In Nagano, the best the U.S. managed in an individual Nordic combined event was 20th...
...that's fine by Kwan, who is taking a decidedly different tack at this Games. The last time around, in Nagano, she skipped Opening Ceremonies and shunned the Olympic Village in favor of a private hotel. That wouldn't have been a big deal, but Tara Lipinski, who would trump her for the gold, did the exact opposite - marching in Opening ceremonies, living in the athlete dorms, taking in every bit of the Olympic experience. And it worked for Lipinski. All of this may or may not have played in Kwan's mind on Thursday when she decided to stay...
...into the race, I will have to see how I feel - my body feeling, my mental feeling, how the training before is going. With this, I will see how the race goes. Sometimes, even when I give 100%, I may only get fifth place - and that's okay. In Nagano, I got a bronze medal. So now of course it would be nice to get a silver or a gold medal. But I know that with one step that's not on the right side, then...
...fellow countrymen are not. Japan desperately craves Olympic champions. The state of its winter team is so shaky that the slacker sport of snowboarding offers the country one of its best shots at a medal in Salt Lake City. It's quite a comedown from four years ago, in Nagano, where the host team ski jumped and skated its way to five gold medals. This time, it's up to Miyake and Michiyo Hashimoto, 29, who recently finished first and second in a World Cup event. Hashimoto, an Osaka native, is also a relative newcomer to snowboarding; she took...
...cool attitude and reckless nonchalance is integral to the sport's ethos. In Nagano snowboarders were the cutups of the earnest Olympic set, cracking jokes and busting up hotel lobbies (one was tossed out of the Games for damaging a hotel switchboard while playing soccer with a beer...