Word: skater
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...eyes are on Anni Friesinger - and not just because of her habit of posing for risque photos. The German speed skater rides an unmatched winning streak into Salt Lake City, having lost only one middle- and long-distance race all season. At the Games, she plans to skate in four events - the 1,000, 1,500, 3,000 and 5,000 m - and is a heavy favorite at 1,500 and 3,000. Friesinger spoke with TIME?s Jeff Chu from her pre-Olympic training base in Calgary, Canada. Excerpts...
TIME: What's your magic ingredient? Friesinger: What for me is very important is that I have a nice training group. We are all friends. My brother Jan is in the group. There's also [German teammate] Marion Wohlrab, Cedric Kuentz - he's a French skater - and Yuri Kokhanetz from Russia. This is my training group. It's great. Our coach brought five people to the Olympics. Not everybody can say this. We've all had a very good season and everybody is happy. There's a very good mood on our team, and that's important...
DIED. JACK SHEA, 91, gold-medal-winning Olympic speed skater; of injuries from a car accident; in Saranac Lake, N.Y. Shea, who won two gold medals in 1932 but refused to skate in the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany, became the patriarch of the nation's first family of three generations of Olympians. His son competed in three skiing events in 1964, and a month ago, his grandson earned a spot on the U.S. Olympic skeleton team, in which sledders go headfirst down...
...attack on skater Nancy Kerrigan was shocking and chilling enough. But when the rumblings began that Harding or her entourage might somehow be involved, a grimly familiar tale of random violence turned into something far more gothic. Even people without the faintest interest in the crystalline world of figure skating could not help marveling at the spectacle. Did the scrappy girl from the trailer parks, who has climbed so high and suffered so much, possibly plot to destroy her rival? Or did her violently jealous husband assemble a gang of goons to act without her knowledge but on her behalf...
Maine made the game close again as Meagan Aarts scored her 11th and 12th goals of the season, the first goal coming 6:09 into the third, and the second goal coming with 1:25 left in regulation after Smart had been pulled for an extra skater...