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...first hint at the type of competitor Hughes is. Even then I could sense the same frustration building in her that had been welling inside Tara Lipinski four years ago: a potential champion wondering why the experts don't think she will win. Having watched Lipinski triumph in Nagano, I thought something similar could happen in Salt Lake. Recent women's Olympic champions were, on the one night that counted, the best skaters. Last Thursday, I was happy to see, the streak continued...
...Asia's Winter Medal Hopes All Adrift Somehow It All Seemed Easier in Nagano...
...encapsulation of Asia's performance: doing nothing right, over and over. True, tiny dynamo Hiroyasu Shimizu won silver for the 500-m speedskate, losing to American Casey FitzRandolph by only 0.03 seconds. But Shimizu, on painkillers for a back injury, got gold four years ago in Nagano, when Japan won five gold medals in all. This year it will be lucky to get any. The big Asian upset came in the women's 1,500-m short track speed skate, expected to be dominated by a Chinese pair of Yang Yangs. Yang Yang (S) banged into the side with four...
Canada knows that feeling well. Shewchuk, for one, was the final cut from the Canadian team four years ago. She then had to endure watching her team lose in Nagano...
Gagnon is the second male short tracker to win three gold medals, having also won the relay gold at Nagano. He has five Olympic medals overall, more than anyone else in the sport...