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...Lodwick - and the U.S. media - thought he had a decent chance of winning a medal, particularly considering his two podium finishes on this season's World Cup circuit and his strong showing in Saturday's ski-jump leg of the two-sport event. After breaking his boot during a training jump on Thursday, Lodwick decided he'd still prefer to compete with his familiar footwear. It was a good choice. Even in difficult wind conditions, he leaped into seventh place. Bill Demong, 21, of Vermontville, NY, took eighth...
...mere four-year Olympic cycle later, Hughes is still maneuvering for meetings with Kwan, but now it's on the medals podium. As part of the deeply talented U.S. women's figure-skating team heading to Salt Lake City, Hughes will be facing off with Kwan and Sasha Cohen for Olympic gold in what promises to be the most intense battle of the blades in a decade. The three make up the strongest U.S. contingent since Kristi Yamaguchi, Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding last stirred hope for a medals sweep in 1992. Yamaguchi and Kerrigan delivered, winning gold and bronze...
Even so, getting to the podium won't be a slap shot for Hughes. Cohen, a gifted performer, is as much a master of the mental game as she is of the triple Lutz. At last month's nationals she clipped Kwan twice during the warm-up before their final programs, rattling Kwan enough that she cut short the prep for her jumps. Cohen denied the hockey tactics were intentional, but gamesmanship may be part of her package. "I'm always trying to be on top of the podium," she says. Hampered by a back injury last year, Cohen...
...word from Bode Miller's coach this year is that Miller has finally matured as a ski racer. Found the brake pedal. The guy was always as fast as an avalanche, but just as wild. He would occasionally show up on the winners' podium, but that seemed purely accidental. The rest of the time Bullet Bode (it's pronounced Bo-dee) would be so far off the course you would need a GPS to find him. This season, though, Miller has been a fixture on the winners' stand of the World Cup tour, Europe's glamorous winter circuit...
...long as the rink is frozen, you can count on Russian teams winning medals in pairs and ice dancing. For the past half a century, in fact, at least one Russian pair has stood on the Olympic podium, and with the exception of one Games, when British dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean won gold, Russian ice dancers have occupied the top spot in that event. Russian men have also dominated, bringing home gold in the past three Olympics, but oddly enough, no Russian has yet won Olympic gold in ladies' figure skating...