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...City scene. Indeed, a gang of Romanians in disguise sneaked off with a gold even before the official start of competition, stealing the watches of six timekeepers on the bus taking them to the first cheating event--in a record 32 sec. That event, the men's equipment-tampering relay, was won by North Korea's team in a dramatic upset over highly favored Iraq. The North Koreans had broken into the wrong locker room, lost their tools and failed to sabotage the blade of a single U.S. skater. Only a brilliant come-from-behind cash bribe in the final...
...spectators filled the Salt Lake Ice Center on Saturday night expecting to see 19-year old Apolo Anton Ohno win his third and fourth medals, one to be shared with Harvard’s Dan Weinstein ’03-’04 in the 5,000-meter relay...
Ohno didn’t even make the finals of the men’s 500 meters, contested prior to the relay. And while American Rusty Smith became the hero of the early evening after winning a bronze in the 500, he was the goat of the late evening, tripping over a lane marker in the relay to knock the U.S. out of championship contention...
...Americans needed to win a relay medal was to avoid a last-place finish in the four-team final heat. But last is exactly where the Americans—the reigning world champions in the event—finished...
...It’s what happens sometimes,” Weinstein said. “It doesn’t change the fact that I still think we’re still the best relay team in the world. You lose distance, and it’s harder to get your speed back after a fall, but you give it everything you have. We were fried at the end. All of us understand. These things can happen...