Word: silver
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...Winter Olympics where hyped athletes tumbled from grace, a little-known Japanese figure skater became a surprise star by keeping her tush off the ice. SHIZUKA ARAKAWA beat favorites Sasha Cohen of the U.S., who won the silver, and Irina Slutskaya of Russia, who took home the bronze. Arakawa, 24, considered retiring in 2004 and finished ninth at last year's world championships. But she stuck with it to please her dad and wound up scoring Japan's first figure-skating gold and becoming a national hero. Happy now, Mr. Arakawa? --By Alice Park...
...outward signs, the sixth day of the Olympic Games was sliding along as smoothly as the first five. Snowboarders were shredding the morning away up in the Alps, while fans down in Torino prepared to celebrate a surprise Italian gold in speedskating. Even official confirmation that Russian biathlon silver medalist Olga Pyleva had tested positive for banned substances seemed, by past Olympic standards, like a small patch of bad ice. But by late afternoon on Feb. 16 - unbeknownst to the athletes, the trainers and the worldwide TV audience - major trouble was brewing in Torino. A hurried closed-door meeting...
...that they have to strictly regulate the use of space in the Loeb and Agassiz, emphasizes Hanley.His point is that there’s no single overwhelming cause of stress in the Common Casting process—everyone is frustrated and frazzled for reasons beyond control. The normally silver-tongued director proves unusually inarticulate in his attempts to emphasize this fact, resorting to generalized reproofs of Harvard’s institutional inflexibility: “Theater is just so limited in so many respects here. And that’s what’s sort of irritating...
...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...
...final, or when Emily Brydon finished 20th in the women's downhill--coc chief executive officer Chris Rudge said he was planning a post-Games symposium of sports psychologists to discern why Canadians crumble under the weight of the five rings. The only early bright spots were the inspirational silver won by Beckie Scott and Sara Renner in cross-country team sprint and Jennifer Heil's gold medal in freestyle moguls...