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...During the break, I started thinking about figure skating, where, at the time, Kwan, the Russian Irina Slutskaya, American Sasha Cohen and Hughes stood one through four. Too bad, I mused, that the kids can't jump up in the standings if they really crank one tonight...
...figured wrongly. Figure-skate judging had learned nothing in the last week and two judges had placed Hughes's performance this evening below both Kwan's and Cohen's. Incomprehensible. Outrageous! Moreover, the entire Russian Olympic team was threatening to pull out of the Games this very evening. They'd been hard done because some cross-country skier had tested positive and Wednesday's hockey game was called too closely and there was still that thing with the Canadian pairs and, well, they were in fifth place overall and someone had to answer to Putin. (Or so speculated a Russian...
...yesterday morning I started thinking about figure skating, where, at the time, Kwan, the Russian Irina Slutskaya, American Sasha Cohen and Hughes stood one through four. Too bad, I mused, that the kids can't jump up in the standings if they really crank one tonight...
Eliot House’s annual Evening With Champions benefit makes good things possible for ailing children. It also made good things possible for Butler, a member of the Harvard Figure Skating Club, who was asked to accompany Russian skaters from their training facility in Hackensack, N.J. to Cambridge for the October 2000 performance. Butler jumped at the chance to chat with coach Tamara Moscvina and her current pair Berezhnaya and Sikharvlidze. Moscvina proceeded to talk to Butler for the duration of the three-hour drive to Cambridge, he remembers, telling stories about her previous pairs teams and answering...
Butler was beside himself when Moscvina agreed to use Butler’s choice, which Olympic commentators said suited the Russian pair well. “It is an incredible selection, and it will be remembered forever because they won the gold medal to it,” Butler says...