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...Torino, the only athlete left to salvage Japan's underwhelming performance was 24-year-old women's figure skater Shizuka Arakawa, clinging to third place going into the long-program event. Arakawa may have been the 2004 world champion, but all week the who-will-get-gold headlines belonged to the frontrunners, America's Sasha Cohen and Russia's Irina Slutskaya. "[Arakawa] is among the top-three girls," her coach Nikolai Morozov told TIME in the run-up to Torino. "She now has to work on building more confidence in herself...
...clinching the third seed in the ECAC tournament, achieving a home ECAC playoff date for the first time in its two years in the conference. In the crunch, Clarkson buckled under the pressure. After the Crimson had pulled senior goalie Ali Boe, who saved thirty shots overall, the extra skater gave Harvard the advantage it needed. With 27 seconds remaining before the Crimson would lose its playoff home ice, junior Lindsey Weaver beat the Saints’ Kira Hurley during a six-on-five, high-pressure situation.“I can only picture the puck going...
...LAST SKATER STANDING...
...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...
...delight, can observe displays of breathtaking skill and woeful ineptitude, can run through a veritable gamut of emotions and emerge purified. In a matter of minutes, I witnessed both the joys of victory and the agony of defeat. On two ends of the sportsmanship spectrum, I saw a Princeton skater throw a hissy fit near the bench after he was whistled for a delay of game violation and I saw Stehle nobly help a fallen defender to his feet as the horn sounded on another heart-wrenching loss for the senior. I was crushed. And then I was redeemed. Because...