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South Koreans take enormous pride in watching their speed skaters win top honors, including October's haul of 15 out of 20 gold medals at World Cup skating events in China. But national pride turned to anger last week after allegations surfaced that at least three members of the South Korean women's team may have been victims of beatings by some of their coaches. According to three unsigned letters sent to a local news agency, the coaches allegedly administered frequent lashings with plastic skate guards, hockey sticks, shoes and skate sharpeners: "Anything could be turned into a rod," read...
...tied as the shortest skater on the ice when the Harvard men’s hockey team took on Yale, but his game was the biggest. And he was the youngest to see action on Friday night, but his game proved more than mature. And when the final buzzer sounded to the tune of a 3-1 Crimson victory, freshman Jon Pelle had made all the difference...
Kirshner’s Science A-35: The Nature of Light and Matter lectures can be found at www.courses.fas.harvard.edu/~scia35. On April 27, minute 48 featured a student with a miner’s hat balancing like a figure skater on a spinning platform...
...despite the extra skater, Harvard failed to establish a presence inside the Cornell zone. A series of lackluster passes sent the Crimson scrambling back towards its own goalmouth, where junior defenseman Tom Walsh coughed up the puck to the Big Red’s Mitch Carefoot. As the two tussled behind the net, Carefoot slipped the puck out to teammate Mike Knoepfli as he streaked towards the goal...
ANALYSIS: Off-season acquisitions have done little to improve Brown’s lackluster offense, which again figures to place among the conference’s worst. Sophomore forward Brian Ihnacak, who netted 10 goals and 20 assists last year, is perhaps the only skater talented enough to stave off that almost inevitable outcome. Of course, the Bears did quite well with no scoring last year. So all they need to maintain their position in the ECAC’s upper echelon is replace Hobey Baker finalist netminder Yann Danis. That?...