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...competition. Then his right skate "caught an edge" -- hit the ice on the side instead of the bottom of the blade -- sending him to his hands and knees and into a wall. For a moment he sat on the ice, unbelieving, until Coach Mike Crowe and Teammate Nick Thometz came over to help him off. Arriving at the bench area, he embraced his fiancee, Canadian Speed Skater Natalie Grenier, and sobbed...
Meanwhile the competition has been reaching dizzying new speeds. In Sunday's race, 27 skaters broke Heiden's old record. After Jansen, the best U.S. hope for a medal had been Sprinter Nick Thometz. But following months of battling a low blood-platelet count and a recent bout of the flu, he finished eighth in the 500 and 18th in the 1,000. That race went to the Soviet Union's Nikolai Guliaev in 1:13.03. The silver went to East Germany's Jens-Uwe Mey, already winner of the 500 with a 36.45 record. Finally on Saturday...
...field events, Co-Captain James Russell won the 35-lb. throw with a distance of 62-ft., 1-in. Freshman Nick Sweeney captured the shot put at 50-ft., 3-in. and placed second behind Russell in the 35-lb. throw with a throw that spanned 55-ft, 10-in. Senior Chris Sullivan nabbed second place in the high jump with a distance of 6-ft, 9 1/2-in. Rutledge Simmons qualified for the IC4A's in the triple jump, leaping a distance...
Junior Rutledge Simmons leaped 44-ft., 7-in. in the triple jump, Tim Harte finished the 1000-meter race in 2:30, Chris Sullivan jumped 6-ft., 8-in. in the high jump, and Nick Sweeney racked up a pair of third place finishes in two field events...
...craziness of the downhill. The mighty Swiss, led by Pirmin Zurbriggen, are the ones to watch for. -- Ski Jumper Matti Nykanen, Finland's bad boy, takes off for the first of two hoped-for golds. -- U.S. speed skaters came up empty-handed at Sarajevo, but at this distance Americans Nick Thometz and Dan Jansen are both good bets...