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...back and found it within themselves to put everything they had out there.”Sifers has a bit of a history of scoring on big occasions for the Crimson. Her top-shelf strike in the NCAA Final against Minnesota last spring was a game-tying laser beam. OLYMPIAN SIGHTINGSHarvard’s three inactive Olympians—Julie Chu, Caitlin Cahow, and Sarah Vaillancourt—were all on hand at Bright Center yesterday to cheer on their teammates. The trio took the year off from school to participate in the Games in Turin, but were on campus...
...name” universities such as Princeton, Georgetown, and that other institution down in New Haven—the one with the bad football team.So why did Cheek get left outside the gates of the Ivory Tower? Isn’t an intriguing, sociable, and generous Olympian just the kind of student Byerly Hall looks for?For the purposes of analysis, let’s break down Cheek into three component parts: his fame and intrigue, his kindness and generosity, and his academic and extracurricular value to the Harvard community.When it comes to fame, the speedskater ranks among...
...laid back, the speedskating superstar doesn't carry herself off-ice like the fiery locomotive that she becomes when she's racing. Klassen had the engine going full bore in Torino, taking five medals, which, added to a bronze from Salt Lake City, make her the winningest Canadian Olympian ever. Although a favorite to win multiple medals heading into Torino, her jittery performance in the 3,000-m event during the Games' first week got the doubters going. In the 3,000 m, Klassen overreacted to Dutch skater Ireen Wust's blazing time in an early pairing by altering...
...There's frustration at being so tantalizingly close mixed with satisfaction they're exceeding expectations," says former Crazy Canuck Ken Read, a two-time Olympian and head of Alpine Canada. "If those fourths had been a medal, people would have been doing backflips. We wanted this team to gain the experience to position themselves for 2010. They're doing that...
...Salt Lake was a huge emotional victory because we hadn't beaten the U.S. all year in the lead-up games," said Wickenheiser, a three-time Olympian. "This time, the pressure to defend the gold medal was really different. Right now, I'm feeling relieved and exhausted...