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...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 private training facilities (Hughes in Colorado Springs, Cohen back home...
...gold, did the exact opposite - marching in Opening ceremonies, living in the athlete dorms, taking in every bit of the Olympic experience. And it worked for Lipinski. All of this may or may not have played in Kwan's mind on Thursday when she decided to stay in Salt Lake City for what may be two of the most important weeks of her life, but after viewing the rink facilities at the University of Utah and the Salt Lake Ice Center, she knew she wasn't going home. "It's a wonderful experience to walk around the Village, I like...
After enduring bribery scandals and terror-proofing, Salt Lake City is ready for these Olympics to get under way. The signs are everywhere. The Salt Lake Tribune headlines ("At Last!" and "It's Here!") belie a state of unbridled enthusiasm tinged by a sense of relief that the magic moment has finally arrived. Olympic volunteers clustering around the press venues are very nearly hysterical with good-natured excitement. As the tow-headed teenager behind the counter of a downtown coffeehouse put it as he handed over a tray of coffees, "Dude, I'm so totally stoked this is actually happening...
Olympic hockey team member and Harvard undergraduate Angela Ruggiero ’02-’04 will be one of eight U.S. athletes to carry an American flag from the World Trade Center at tonight’s opening ceremonies for the Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City...
...recent report in “Sports Illustrated” showed how the Utah congressional delegation was able, in concert with other Representatives, Senators and the White House, to appropriate tens of millions of dollars from the federal budget for the Salt Lake Games between 1995-2000. They fleeced the taxpayers, the report claims, because much of this expenditure was unnecessary from the federal level in light of how much was spent on the Atlanta Summer Olympics in 1996, which was a much larger event. In any case, the report adds to the growing mountain of evidence of wrongdoing. Right...