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...pull a Bode in figure skating? I wondered and lamented as I headed back to Salt Lake City for the skating. I put the question to my colleague, Alice Park, as we sat at the Delta Center waiting for the final group to skate. "Well," she explained patiently to her skating-challenged friend, "it's because if Hughes skates great and Cohen's behind her then she has to beat Kwan. But if she does that, then Slutskaya has to beat Kwan for Hughes to win, because if Slutskaya is second to Kwan tonight then the short program is brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarah Pulled a Bode | 2/22/2002 | See Source »

...mediocre performance Number One for the night. Five gave that honor to Hughes's stellar one, thank goodness. Slutskaya did, thus, beat Kwan, which allowed Hughes to get her due. It was a very, very, very, very near thing. It was quite close to crummy. We very nearly had Salt Lake's Skategate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sarah Pulled a Bode | 2/22/2002 | See Source »

...Coming into Salt Lake City, no skater since Lipinski had done the rough equivalent of that sensational accomplishment. There had been modest surprises - tantamount to scandals in the skating world - but that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week: Sarah Hughes | 2/22/2002 | See Source »

...mediocre performance Number One for the night. Five gave that honor to Hughes's stellar one, thank goodness. Slutskaya did, thus, beat Kwan, which allowed Hughes to get her due. It was a very, very, very, very near thing. It was quite close to crummy. We very nearly had Salt Lake's Skategate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Person of the Week: Sarah Hughes | 2/22/2002 | See Source »

Before a second of women's hockey was played in Salt Lake, the gold and silver medallists were decided. No, we're not talking about a judging scandal. It's just that there were only two remotely plausible scenarios in a competition that featured the U.S., Canada and six also-rans who had no serious shot at gold. In the first, the U.S. would continue its pre-Olympic domination of the Canadians - the Americans had won all of the last eight meetings - and successfully defend their 1998 gold medal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Women's Hockey: Sweden Gets Bronze! | 2/22/2002 | See Source »

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