Word: olympian
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Having graduated Olympian Dora Gyorffy ’01, All-American Brenda Taylor ’01 and Marna Schutte ’01, few people were looking at the Crimson women as serious contenders...
...Hang on a minute, I think I just won,'" Bradbury told Time. "I'm probably the luckiest gold medalist in the world." Luck had nothing to do with Australia's second unexpected gold, won two days later by aerialist Alisa Camplin, 27. Though she had dreamed of being an Olympian since she was five, Camplin didn't show up at the Opening Ceremonies, didn't go to the athletes' village and didn't trade pins. All she did was train - and then nail two difficult jumps. The Australian government has shown how seriously it takes the pair's historic victories...
...Ohno, a 19-year-old Japanese American who just may be the coolest teen on the planet, is an avatar of the new breed of Winter Olympian. Jim Shea Jr. is the ultimate throwback, and his triumph in the age-old but just reintroduced sport of skeleton was a fairy tale to top all others, except possibly Kostelic's. Riding with Shea inside his helmet was a photograph of his grandfather, a former speed-skater who had been America's oldest living Winter Olympics champion until his death in a car crash just before the Games. The Sheas are legends...
...Rather old, astonishingly young, man, woman, boy, girl, in all ethnic variety: The American Olympian who turned the Salt Lake Games into precisely the triumphant and joyous moment needed by this bruised country was marvelous to behold. Two weeks ago there was no predicting that a cauldron supporting a flame represented the melting pot. On Sunday that flame was extinguished, but the spirit of what was accomplished in its realm lives on. The Winter Olympics, once the domain of elites representing ski, skate and toboggan clubs, has been changed forever. What a glorious thing these new Games are. They...
Ward finished off the Crimson’s attack by downing Brown freestyler and Jamaican Olympian Dawn Chuck in the final 100 with a stellar 49.98 split. Ward capped off Harvard’s second relay record of the night, touching the wall in a cumulative time...