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Forget that hockey match the U.S. won 22 years ago in Lake Placid. The real miracle on ice happened last week, when Australian Steven Bradbury, 28, won his country's first-ever Winter Olympic gold medal. With only one lap to go in the men's short track speed skating 1,000-m final, Bradbury, who'd never had a world-class solo victory, was trailing far behind the other four skaters. Then the pack crashed and Bradbury cruised past the carnage from worst to first. "I was like, 'Hang on a minute, I think I just won,'" Bradbury told...
...others, except possibly Kostelic's. Riding with Shea inside his helmet was a photograph of his grandfather, a former speed-skater who had been America's oldest living Winter Olympics champion until his death in a car crash just before the Games. The Sheas are legends in Lake Placid, America's Cooperstown of winter sports tradition. Now Jim Jr. is a legend throughout the land, having slid through the storm on his small sled to dramatic, unexpected victory. And he, alone among athletes in Salt Lake, tried to take it to another level. He said medals and golds and winning...
...season , Harvard’s goal is to finish at least third in the conference. With that rank, the Crimson would have home ice for the best-of-three opening playoff round in two weeks and a more favorable matchup should Harvard advance to the ECAC Championship in Lake Placid. There, the fourth- and fifth-place teams must compete in a separate play-in game. The winner faces the daunting task of beating a well-rested Cornell the following...
...that started in the third period against St. Lawrence,” said Harvard sophomore winger Rob Fried. “Our goal is to reach the ECAC finals. We can run the table these last couple weekends [of the regular season] and then keep going to Lake Placid...
...FitzRandolph's story in a nutshell: he took up the sport as a seven-year-old after watching Eric Heiden win all his gold in Lake Placid. "I gave up hockey," he said. "Apparently Heiden impressed me more as a kid than that Miracle on Ice team did." The 27-year-old has been focusing on the sport ever since and says it has taken him 20 years to get where he wanted...