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...something about this." The i.o.c. announced late Friday that the Austrian athletes' urine tests came back negative, but both Olympic and Italian officials said their investigation will steam ahead. Not all were cheering. Several of the Austrians searched, including two cross-country skiers who had the 4 ? 10-km relay the next day at 10 a.m. (they finished last), were outraged. "We were surprised in our room," said cross-country skier Jürgen Pinter. "Suddenly the police came in and didn't let us leave on the night before the competition. This happened without any positive results from doping...
...ever-present danger they are in alpine skiing, there are few things worse than losing or breaking a pole. So when Sara Renner's pole snapped midway through the Olympic women's cross country skiing team sprint race, the reaction was pretty near unanimous. "Oh no!" thought her relay partner, Beckie Scott, in the transition area below. "Not now, not here." "Oh my God, they've worked so hard for 12 years together and now, a stupid pole breaks!" recalled Sara's father Sepp Renner, watching in horror from the stands...
...sprint relay - a new Olympic event - one skier does a 1.1-kilometre loop and then tags her partner, who skis the same loop. Each skier completes three legs. After finishing second in the semifinal to advance, Renner started the first leg of the final. The Canadian tandem led after each of the first two exchanges and Renner was in the midst of an uphill section on her second loop when the pole broke. "I don't even know what happened, I just know that all of a sudden I was kind of flapping with one arm," she said, laughing...
...dominance in the Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League (EISL) with victories over both Princeton and Yale in the annual meet of the big three. Co-captain Dave Cromwell led the charge, setting a meet record in the 200-yard backstroke and contributing to a win in the 200-yard medley relay. Four swimmers notched two wins for the Crimson (7-1, 6-1 EISL), which can now grab a share of the league title with a win next weekend against Penn. “It feels really good to win Harvard-Yale-Princeton,” co-captain Bill Cocks said...
...people auctioned were well known campus personalities including former Undergraduate Council President Matthew J. Glazer ’06, First Class Marshal Tracy “Ty” Moore II ’06, Former Harvard Concert Commission Chair Jack P. McCambridge ’06, and Relay for Life officer Hannah K. Ahn ’08. Although the lowest bid was ten dollars, other bids were in the hundreds. Former Lowell House Committee Chair, Kaartiga Sivanesan ’06 set the record for the auction when she sold for the whopping...