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...extraordinary finishes," he said. "We have a saying in Colorado, If anyone can do it, John Elway can do it.'" But even channeling Elway couldn't help Lodwick overcome a 2:15 handicap. Two of the top three jumpers, compatriots Samppa Lajunen and Jaako Tallus, skied to gold and silver medals in a double Finnish finish. And a tremendous ski leg catapulted Austrian Felix Gottwald from 11th place to the bronze. When Gottwald passed him in the second lap, Lodwick said, it took the wind out of his sails. His legs felt sluggish. And he was only able to hold...
...past seven years, it has pulled in five. This World Cup season, the U.S. was the only country to field two individual gold medal winners, Lodwick and Demong. So forget the catchphrase from Nike's much-maligned ad campaign launched after the Atlanta Games: "You don't win silver. You lose gold." Todd Lodwick, his teammates and coaches, are all winners at these Olympics...
Patriotism does not flow easily in Russia anymore. And if anyone has a right to shut his heart to Moscow, it is Slava Fetisov. The country's greatest hockey hero throughout the 1980s, Fetisov, 43, won two gold Olympic medals and one silver, seven world championships and the Order of Lenin. Yet Fetisov spent the late '80s being systematically harassed by his government. After being denied, year after year, the right to play in the National Hockey League as he had been promised, Fetisov decided to sue the U.S.S.R. for his freedom...
Botterill, who won a silver medal with Team Canada in 1998 before coming to Harvard, said the Olympics might be even more special the second time around...
...silver lining it’s good that they’re recognizing that deans who often aren’t trained with dealing with sexual assault cases may not be the best place to bring a sexual assault case,” Levit-Shore said. “But it’s something that takes place on a college campus so it seems like a natural thing for the college disciplinary committee to deal with...