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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 finish would hurt Lodwick in the other half of Nordic combined, the cross-country skiing event. The best jumper gets to start skiing first, with the others following in order of how they placed in the ski-jump; first person to cross the finish line wins. That meant that Lodwick would begin his cross-country ski two minutes and fifteen seconds behind the leader. Lodwick, a strong skier, likened his chances of a medal to that of a football team that is two touchdowns behind in the final quarter...
...Still, that was in itself a victory. "Ten, 12 years ago none of the other nations really knew we were alive," said U.S. head coach Tom Steitz. "Now they are all afraid of USA Nordic combined." After poaching Norway's head coach, Jan-Erik Aalbu, to be the U.S. jumping coach, and injecting some much-needed money into its program, the U.S. is getting results. For 48 years, it won no medals on the Junior World Cup circuit. In the past seven years, it has pulled in five. This World Cup season, the U.S. was the only country to field...
...feel-good stories in the run-up to the Games and is now one of the most poignant. His grandfather Jack was the oldest living U.S. Olympic gold medalist at 91, having won twice in speed skating at the 1932 Games. Jimmy's father Jim Sr. was a Nordic combined athlete--that's ski jumping followed by cross-country skiing--in the 1964 Olympics. Both men were to be in the stadium when Jimmy marched in, but Jack was killed in a car accident two weeks ago. Jimmy will slide with his grandfather's funeral card taped to his helmet...
...Crimson finished with 197 team points, to Vermont’s 753.5 first-place finish. In the overall standings Harvard managed to defeat just one school, Green Mountain College, who did not race in the nordic portion...