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Sarah Hughes' performance was the pinnacle of a figure-skating competition tarnished by a judging scandal in the pairs competition that resulted in two gold-medal awards. It also had to withstand a protest by a cranky Russian Olympic federation demanding gold for Slutskaya and threatening to leave the Games...
In fact, it's unlikely to happen again. No other skater--in women, men, pairs or ice dancing--has ever made up so much ground at the Olympics. Too much has to happen. Given the contorted mathematics that is the skating judging system, it was not enough for Hughes to...
You seem to have missed the mark with your Olympic preview. I noticed skiing, skating, snowboarding, the skeleton, sledding (men's and women's) and then men's hockey. What happened to the 1998 gold-medal-winning U.S. women's ice-hockey team? They are a talented group of athletes...
The Canadians had endured a miserable Olympics before the nation’s double success in ice hockey. Heavily favored speed skater Jeremy Wotherspoon collapsed under pressure, turning in two dismal performances and returning home without a medal despite his status as defending World Champion. Canada had half as many...
And then you know what will happen? All the other countries in the world will gang up on us—and challenge us to an Olympics where it’s simply “the U.S. v. the world.”