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...most important moment of their athletic lives--because they had crept away to an off-limits slope to sneak in some extra rides. Hannah Teter, 19, and Gretchen Bleiler, 24, returned in time to take home gold and silver, respectively. In the finals of the snowboard cross, a new, Roller-Derby-on-snow Olympic event in which four boarders twist and fly down a mountain to the finish, favorite Seth Wescott, 29, should have panicked, trailing Slovakia's Radoslav Zidek late in the race. (It's the Olympics, don't you know?) He didn't and cut off Zidek like...
...Rubens and Lawrence attended the Olympics as a developmental opportunity but more was expected of Brydon and VanderBeek. Brydon, who grew up in Fernie, B.C., keyed her season on the Olympic downhill because the course suited her ability to glide on the flats. But she started poorly on the roller-coaster style of terrain and could not recover. ?I didn?t perform to my ability or expectation,? said Brydon, 25. ?I went in 100% prepared, physically. Everything I needed was in front...
...They are businessmen who didn't go to business school, and they believe that gives them a creative edge. Their standard attire is black T shirt, jeans and sneakers (and white lab coats for special occasions). They are at once playful--they used to take part in the regular roller-hockey games in the Google parking lot--and solemnly idealistic, as when discussing Google's new $1 billion philanthropic arm. Brin and Page are products of Montessori schools and credit the system with developing their individuality and entrepreneurship. They're often accused of being arrogant, but to the extent that...
LIKE REALITY TV, ROLLER DERBY mixes contrived personae with real conflict, theatrics with real spills. The women of the Austin, Texas, Lonestar Rollergirls league are equal parts athletes and punk-feminist performance artists (with drag-queeny noms de skate like Venis Envy and Miss Conduct); they wear Catholic-schoolgirl skirts and fishnets and deal out bruising blows. "You can be completely feminine and athletic, threatening and sexy," says a skater of the sport's appeal. Gorgeously shot and structured like a drama, each episode delves into the lives of skaters, some fighting off demons, others blowing off steam. As their...
...pressure she faced is nothing new to Martin in her career between the pipes, though it comes in a slightly different form. Because Martin’s highest level of competition, as accomplished as she was on the ice at the high school level, has been while playing roller hockey. In 2004-2005, she won a silver medal at the Roller Hockey World Championships with the U.S. National Team.In her home state of California, despite the high number of current American winter Olympians who hail from the area (13—third most for any state in the country), warmer...