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...early returns suggest that America's best are unlikely to heed the protesters' calls. At the U.S. Olympic Committee's biennial pre-Games media summit in April, swimmer Michael Phelps, Team USA's most visible and celebrated Olympian, was asked if he felt any responsibility to speak out against injustice. He answered with a rambling evasion. Others offered direct, though disappointing, replies. "That's a lot of responsibility, to ask an athlete to not only represent your country and perform and try to win a gold meal, and to have a political view," said U.S. women's soccer star Abby...
...millions in potential endorsement dollars - and heading back to that job at Home Depot. Every distraction makes a difference; they can't afford to muddle their minds. "The athletes are doing the right thing, as far as focusing on sport," says USA Gymnastics executive Ron Galimore, a 1980 Olympian. "They have a small window. It's not that they don't care. It just takes so much focus, so much energy to make an Olympic Games. Their heads are in the right place...
...jumping athletes who had podium-placed at the indoor NCAA Championships last month. Christensen placed fourth at that meet.Now the junior joins an elite group of Crimson female athletes to claim victory at the Penn Relays, an event that boasts some of the strongest talent Harvard faces all year. Olympian Brenda Taylor ’01 and two-time high jump champion Dora Gyorffy ’01 are the only other Crimson women with a Penn Relay title.Christensen was one of only three athletes who cleared 179 cm at the Penn Relays this past weekend, earning victory by clearing...
...later The Stable Boy strode through the door. He was soaked from the rain, and as he entered he pulled off his shirt in one fluid motion and tossed it to the ground. In the gray light of the stable, drops of rainwater could be seen sliding between the Olympian muscles of his shoulders and back.“Why don’t you take off that dress?” he suggested coolly, his biceps bulging as he raked his fingers through his darkened curls.Felicity stiffened. “How dare you speak to me with such disrespect...
...quantity.”With its depth, the Crimson can look to many players to accomplish this objective, but perhaps none is more critical to success than junior forward Sarah Vaillancourt.The team leader in goals and assists, Vaillancourt has been a force on the ice all season long. The Olympian also leads Harvard with a gaudy .141 shot percentage, meaning that she knows how to generate quality shots.Not surprisingly, though, the nation’s best team displays excellence up and down the lineup rather than relying on a couple of superstars. Despite the fact that Vaillancourt and Cahow have...