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...short-track speed-skating champion Kim Dong Sung will be celebrating his 22nd birthday on the ice during the Games. It's a fitting site. Kim, who won gold at the Nagano Olympics (plus a silver in the 5,000-m relay as a spare), has hardly left the rink since he took up skating at the age of eight, because it looked "like...
...World Championships in England, he had both arms severely cut when he fell under Chinese competitor Li Jiajun's blades during a race. He didn't even know he was injured until he saw the ice turning red. In a few months, though, he was back in the rink, once more sweeping up golds in the short-track event at the World Cup in Calgary. "I pull myself together immediately when I see my teammates skating better than me," says Kim. "For me skating is the best physical and mental therapy...
Harvard figures to face a much tougher and more crucial challenge tomorrow evening against Cornell. The Big Red have turned Bright into Lynah Rink East in recent years, having not lost at Harvard during Coach Mike Schafer's six-year tenure. The streak includes a 6-2 rout over the Crimson last year...
Even though the Harvard men's hockey team picked up a sweep on the road against Princeton and Yale last year, the storied curses of Hobey Baker and Ingalls Rink were just too much to overcome this weekend. The Crimson (9-8-1, 8-4-1 ECAC) emerged from last weekend's trip with a respectable split, downing the Tigers (5-11-3, 4-6-2) 4-3 with a come-from-behind victory Friday night and falling 3-1 to the Bulldogs (8-8-0, 6-6-0) on Saturday. Although Harvard picked up its second consecutive...
...shot. "They play scrappy, that's their style," Jonas said. "I poke-checked him and I guess he lost the puck in that play." Although the Crimson had great puck possession and controlled most of the play in the opening stanza, fans at the sold-out Hobey Baker Rink witnessed an uncharacteristically out-of-sync Harvard squad. The Crimson suffered early difficulties in making the final pass to seal the deal that fortunately did not plague Harvard later in the game. "We didn't have a really good edge in the first period and we got what we deserved," Mazzoleni...