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...Australia doesn’t have any decent winter athletes just because its total medal count—two—falls far behind winter powers such as the United States, Germany, and Norway, the current medal leaders. Then you’d be denying the existence of Australian Olympian Torah Bright, who took gold in the women’s half pipe, beating all the top U.S. riders in the process...
Freshman year was “really funny,” Hughes recalls. Though many of her classmates at Harvard heard that there was a former Olympian among them, they did not know that the rumored individual was actually her. Since then, Hughes has emerged from obscurity as a stunningly accomplished athlete who is grounded in her life as a Harvard student...
...She’s really down to earth and into giving people tips,” Nolte says of the former Olympian. “She’s really friendly and approachable...
Howard Georgi ’68, Leverett House Master and physics professor, described the former Leverett resident as an “overwhelmingly nice guy” who did well in school and was modest about his Olympian status...
...Probably many students didn’t even know that he was an Olympian,” Georgi said...