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Whether my advice is followed or not, I hope that the questioner will be more confident in whatever decision he or she makes after reading my column. Just remember to take all advice with a grain of salt, preferably one gracing the rim of a margarita...
...Winter Games, arrived at the office of Carabinieri Colonel Angelo Agovino carrying a slim file and a photograph of a stout 48-year-old named Walter Mayer. The Austrian cross-country and biathlon team coach had been busted after prohibited blood-transfusion equipment was found after the Salt Lake Games in 2002, and banned from the Olympics for 10 years (although he always claimed it was not doping but a form of paramedical disease prevention). Now there was evidence that Mayer was staying with the Austrian team during the Games and was perhaps up to his old tricks. Pescante...
...type of fundamentalist," and that international games require a certain degree of diplomacy. "The Olympics," Pescante said, "are different from a bicycle race." Some athletes, however, like the idea of criminalizing doping. Canadian cross-country skier Beckie Scott, who finished third in the women's 5-km pursuit at Salt Lake City but was boosted into the gold medal position after two Russian skiers were thrown out, told Time: "Personally I think it [Italy's law] is a good thing, making it a criminal act and making it illegal. It's fighting fire with fire." For the moment, the Olympics...
...Canada and the United States, gold and silver medalists in Salt Lake City four years ago, both went out in the quarterfinals at Torino. As defending champion, Canada played the 20th Olympic Winter Games tournament as though doubled over by the weight of those expectations back home, displaying grim expressions, old legs and an impotent offense. By contrast, Russia embraced a youth-infused, why-not-us swagger, allowing its forwards to freelance and its goaltender to compensate as needed. Fittingly, sensational newcomer Alexander Ovechkin scored the winner as Russia eliminated Canada 2-0 on Wednesday; Sidney Crosby, his competition...
...Salt Lake was a huge emotional victory because we hadn't beaten the U.S. all year in the lead-up games," said Wickenheiser, a three-time Olympian. "This time, the pressure to defend the gold medal was really different. Right now, I'm feeling relieved and exhausted...