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Last year, the team had endured a painful 3-2 overtime loss to Northern Michigan in the NCAA East Regional, and nobody knew what to expect from Harvard going into the season, especially on the offensive side. The 1992-93 team had been led by US Olympian Ted Drury and had received most of its offense from Drury, Matt Mall-grave '93 and Steve Flomenhoft...
...video screen. "I was sick-to-my-stomach nervous," she said. "I tried to drink water. My insides felt like California during the earthquake." But somehow as she zipped past red barns and sailed over moose and lynx paths down a sun-striped highway of snow, Roffe-Steinrotter summoned Olympian reserves. First in line among 56 skiers in the super-G, a cross between a downhill and a giant-slalom course, she had no one else's mistakes to guide her. "It's one day, one hill, 1 1/2 minutes," she told herself, "and whoever shakes and bakes the best...
...faith Harvard Olympian is bobsledder Jim Herberich...
Herberich has the distinction of being the onlyHarvard Winter Olympian not to come from thehockey team. He will compete for Team USA as thedriver of the second two-man bobsled team...
...chilly tale is still unfolding, but that hasn't stopped publishers from competing in an Olympian race to make quickie books -- and bucks -- from the saga of Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan. No fewer than six paperbacks have been zooming to press: four on the presumed heroine (sample title: The Kerrigan Courage) and two on the suspected villainess (Thin Ice). None have the cooperation of their subjects, and most will be in bookstores well before closing ceremonies in Lillehammer...