Word: rematch
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...medal stands. For most South Korean Taekwondo fighters, then, the real challenge isn't just earning the gold: it's defeating fellow countrymen to qualify for the Olympics in the first place. Four years ago, for example, heavyweight Moon Dae Sung missed the Olympics after losing a last-minute rematch during national selections. He made the team this time around, and in Athens he'll be looking to use one of the strongest left kicks on earth to overpower opponents...
...that lasted more than a decade, U.S. authorities have finally nabbed a slippery fugitive from justice: former chess wunderkind BOBBY FISCHER, 61. (We feel safer already.) Fischer has been a wanted man since 1992 when, in violation of a U.S. ban, he headed to Yugoslavia for a highly publicized rematch with his cold war--era rival Boris Spassky, whom Fischer had defeated 20 years earlier in Reykjavik to become the first American world chess champ. Fischer beat Spassky again in 1992 and won $3.3 million. Since then the eccentric grand master has been living secretly in the Philippines, Japan, Switzerland...
...Friars had been blanked in school history—she led the nation with a 0.66 goals against average and a .961 save percentage. On Dec. 12-13, she guided the Crimson to a 2-2 tie and a 7-2 win against No. 4 Minnesota-Duluth in a rematch of the 2003 National Championship, making a phenomenal 59 saves...
...Crimson rode the momentum into the final contest Peljto, Tubridy and senior point guard Bev Moore would play in a Harvard uniform—a rematch with Dartmouth that would determine second place in the league...
Both Princeton and Harvard graduate one All-Ivy member, setting up a bona fide rematch next season, when the Crimson attempts to win its first league title since...