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What do you see as Americans' chief fault? Drew Renner, SANTA FE, N.M., U.S. The present flaw of the American administration is not paying enough attention to history. There is an attitude, even in universities, that considers history as something remote and not useful...
...women's downhill--coc chief executive officer Chris Rudge said he was planning a post-Games symposium of sports psychologists to discern why Canadians crumble under the weight of the five rings. The only early bright spots were the inspirational silver won by Beckie Scott and Sara Renner in cross-country team sprint and Jennifer Heil's gold medal in freestyle moguls...
...didn't. Instead she finished the leg only 2.5 seconds behind but Scott made up almost the entire difference on the next lap. Renner, supplied with a replacement pole by a Canadian coach while in the transition area, held the position on her third-and-final lap, and Scott began the final loop a nose behind Finland's Virpi Kuitunen, neck-and-neck with Sweden's Lina Andersson. The race came down to the final stretch, when Andersson broke a stride clear of Scott to win the gold medal with Anna Dahlberg in 16 minutes 36.9 seconds. Scott...
...Renner and Scott have raced against and with each other in Alberta since childhood days. "I said to Sara when we were finishing our warmup today, 'We've come a long way baby,'" said Scott, who almost retired after winning a gold medal in Salt Lake City, and almost certainly will stop ski racing after this World Cup season. "To finish it with an Olympic medal...well, I'm not going to say it's surreal," Scott said. "We promised each other that we wouldn't get to get too fruity at the end of this...
...Renner, in her third Olympics, won an Olympic medal for the first time. She had long competed in Scott's shadow until winning a bronze medal at the world championships in the sprint last year. "We promised we wouldn't say, 'It's like a dream,' because I think we really earned this," Renner said. "We have been medal contenders in this event and to actually do it at the Olympic Games, in 20 years we can have a reunion and reminisce about this day. We can share it with each other and that's pretty special...