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They say it's lonely at the top, but U.S. figure skater and gold medal contender Michelle Kwan never knew it would be this lonely. At 10:20 Saturday morning, just 12 hours after marching in the Opening Ceremonies, Kwan was the only skater on the rink at her first official Olympic practice session in Salt Lake City. This being Utah, and these being figure skaters, the empty rink had less to do with Opening Ceremony hangovers and more to do with competitive strategizing - the remaining ladies in her group, Americans Sarah Hughes and Sasha Cohen, have decamped for more...
...develop more "original" movements. Some of the lifts turned out to be rather more interesting than the ISU anticipated. Now the organization is trying to put the toothpaste back in the tube, suggesting that the trouble lies with camera angles. "You have cameras on all sides of the rink," points out the ISU's Aline Bussat, "and if a cameraman sees something at an unfortunate angle and gets an unfortunate shot, that doesn't mean that the skaters are performing an undignified lift...
...long as the rink is frozen, you can count on Russian teams winning medals in pairs and ice dancing. For the past half a century, in fact, at least one Russian pair has stood on the Olympic podium, and with the exception of one Games, when British dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean won gold, Russian ice dancers have occupied the top spot in that event. Russian men have also dominated, bringing home gold in the past three Olympics, but oddly enough, no Russian has yet won Olympic gold in ladies' figure skating...
SENTENCED. THOMAS JUNTA, 44, hockey dad who beat to death another father at a Massachusetts ice rink; to a 6-to-10-year prison term for involuntary manslaughter...
With a sellout crowd of 3,836 packing raucous Lynah Rink , emotions ran high all night long and finally boiled over in the game’s final minutes with a melee at the 18:33 mark. The brawl ended with roughing calls and 10-minute misconducts assessed to every player on the ice, capping a frustrating night for Harvard...