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Within two years, Ohno, though only 14, was fast enough to get an unprecedented invitation to train at the Olympic complex in Lake Placid, N.Y. But he didn't want to go. When he was dropped off at the airport, he disappeared inside and called a friend to pick him up. For the second flight east, Yuki strapped him to the seat. Ohno quickly became the uncut jewel of the U.S. program, but his lack of dedication was profound. He would duck into a Pizza Hut in the middle of training runs. "I just messed around during training, not focusing...
...four G-forces pushing you into the sled, that's cool," says Utahan Lincoln DeWitt, 34. He was first in the World Cup rankings last year, but has slid a bit this year. He certainly has a shot at winning, as does teammate Jim Shea Jr., 33, of Lake Placid...
...those championships in April of 2001, goals from two familiar Harvard faces—Shewchuk and Botterill—lifted a Canadian team that had been practicing together for just two weeks to a 3-2 victory over a U.S. team that had been training together in Lake Placid for seven months. Botterill was named World Championship MVP after leading the tournament with eight goals scored...
...that’s just the first step Harvard must take on the road to Lake Placid. The Crimson simply has to take care of business from here on out. While the opportunity for the Beanpot championship has passed it by—and possibly the chance of a regular season title as well, given how hot Cornell has been lately—the third member of the “Title Triology,” the ECAC playoff crown, is still very much there for the taking...
...tale is a beauty. A national kickboxing champ, he won a 1994 push contest sponsored by the bobsled federation. Suddenly a guy who had barely seen a snowflake was in Lake Placid but needed a sled. To raise money to buy one, he entered the 1995 Ultimate Fighting Championship in Japan, where he faced wrestler Koichiro Kimura in the first round. "It was a hungry crowd, and the extreme-fear factor was really high," Hays recalls. Channeling the adrenaline, he beat Kimura. Hays won $10,000, bought a sled and, once on the track, discovered that "the fight had helped...