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Apolo Ohno is scheduled to be a star. He is the best short-track speed skater in the world, and he could win a gold medal in each of his sport's four Olympic events. At 19, he has the fresh-faced good looks of a boy-band member, a marketable name and a signature style--flowing hair beneath a red bandanna and a soul patch under his lower lip--that makes him instantly recognizable. Abandoned by his mother as an infant, reared in Seattle by an itinerant Japanese hair-stylist father, Ohno has also waged the personal struggle required...
There's only one problem: Ohno can be something of a knucklehead. He is a teenager, just a few years removed from a pattern of skipping school and interrupting training runs with pizza binges. In December a skater named Tommy O'Hare alleged that Ohno and fellow U.S. medal hopeful Rusty Smith, who had already qualified for the American team, tanked the 1,000-m short-track final at the Olympic trials so their friend Shani Davis could finish first and make the team instead of O'Hare. Despite some damning evidence, an arbitrator exonerated Ohno, but the mini-scandal...
Short-track speed-skater Dan Weinstein ’03-’04, a member of the U.S. 5,000-meter relay team, is also a Nagano veteran on leave from Harvard...
...rose quickly through EWC’s ranks and was known by many for his caring—after a death in the family of one of the skaters in the show, Lee drove the skater back to her native Montreal...
Harvard’s inability to clear the puck and take out the skater in front proved decisive...