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...support and excitement of everybody in the stadium was unbelievable,” Chu said. “I remember thinking as I enter the stadium, ‘This is it. This is my dream. I’m finally an Olympian...
While current Canadian Olympian Jennifer Botterill ’01-03 beat Northeastern with game-winning goals the past three Beanpots, this time it was McAuliffe who took on the hero’s role...
Eberharter has been a downhill monster, winning four races this season in addition to two super-Gs. The downhill course at Snowbasin already has racers tightening their boots because it's so demanding. "It doesn't favor heavy skiers," says former Olympian Billy Kidd, now director of skiing at Steamboat. "There's no place where you sit in your tuck. It's very technical. You are always on an edge. Eberharter will be tough to beat in downhill and super-G." Austria also has the top-ranked woman in Michaela Dorfmeister, another speed freak. To find Europe's best mogul...
...home a gold medal. That's yesterday's Olympic profile. It's certainly not Yoko Miyake's story. She's a snowboarder, and this band of offbeat rebels doesn't play by the old rules. Many of the sport's stars didn't even want to join the rarefied Olympian world, when the suits who run the quadrennial ice-fest invited them in four years ago, in hopes of injecting some hipness into the staid Winter Games. "I just decided to try this out for awhile," says Miyake. "And now here...
...While Miyake may not be your classic Olympian, she's a poster girl for Japan's Generation Lost. A talented drifter, Miyake, 28, excelled in gymnastics as a child in Nara but quit. She later tried skiing but gave it up. And she took a break from her university studies in Chinese literature and went backpacking in New Zealand, where she happened to take a snowboarding course. She turned out to be pretty good at it. "I've always failed whenever I was hung up about winning," she says, "so I've decided to relax and take it easy...