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...upset ever on the international stage. Since 1990 and the inception of the world championships, the United States and Canada had lost only to each other, and were universally forecasted to meet in the gold-medal game for the third straight Olympiad. The Americans captured the inaugural crown in Nagano in 1998 before the Canadians prevailed in 2002, setting up the expected rubber match in Turin. “I’m banged up for them, they’re pretty banged up,” Stone said of her American players’ sentiments on Saturday...
...used in this article to better define ambition. Instead, Britney Spears and Sean (Diddy) Combs are used as examples of people whose ambitions led them to succeed. If the ladder to the top includes their like, then I would rather get stuck on the rung of indifference. Joshua Lange Nagano, Japan...
...Dorfmeister won a silver medal in the Super Giant Slalom at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, but got shut out in Salt Lake City in four events. She's won two world championships, a World Cup overall title, two World Cup discipline titles, and this year leads standings in both downhill and Super-G.Starting 23rd, Dorfmeister skied the tricky top aggressively and established a lead of 1.18 seconds. "Wow, that's what I wanted," Dorfmeister said, recalling her reaction. "I tried not to get caught in the wind because you lose time and it is very difficult to regain...
...Games must go on, and with Canada's men's hockey team having righted a Nagano wrong by winning the gold medal in 2002 in Salt Lake City, the focus in Torino--pre-Gretzky, anyway--was supposed to shift at least slightly to the rest of the country's Olympic athletes. The C.O.C. is challenging its skiers, skaters and sliders to lift Canada to third place overall at this year's Games, up from fourth in Salt Lake City. With the Vancouver-Whistler Games on the horizon, the C.O.C. views Torino as an early indicator of whether Canada...
...questions: Are the Canadians too old? Have they peaked too soon? Have the Americans lulled them into a false sense of security? "The Americans are not sandbagging. They're scared to death of Canada right now," says University of Minnesota-Duluth coach Shannon Miller, Team Canada's coach at Nagano...