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Christine Burns: The closest thing the Crimson has to an enforcer, she has 22 penalty minutes this season, many of them coming from hard digging in the corners. Burns is the fastest skater on the second line. She often gets called on to play a late special-teams role. She will pair up with Char Joslin on defense if the other team pulls its goaltender...
...when you consider that Lane MacDonald, Allen Bourbeau, and Tim Barakett (last year's top three scorers) combined for 55 league goals. And despite the fact that no Harvard skater finished in the league's top 10 scorers, the Crimson still managed to pump in an average of four goals per game...
...touchstones, the Swiss downhiller and the Wisconsin speed skater could have been a little tidier: Zurbriggen, 25, triumphed and fell; Jansen, 22, fell and . . . fell again. The death of his sister on the first morning of competition, following a long siege of cancer, made Jansen's 500-meter and 1,000-meter events seem both less and more significant. "Maybe," he admitted at the last, "there is a slight sense of relief that I can go home now and be with my family." And yet he planned to return after the funeral to cheer Eric Flaim and the other Americans...
...Games are understandably a Nordic and European bailiwick. But North American pickings have never been so pitiful. After an entire week of schussing, sliding and skating, Canada and the U.S. were still fighting over a solitary gold medal, ultimately lifted from the Canadian Brian Orser by the U.S. figure skater Brian Boitano to the gentle dismay of the hometown Calgarians. The Americans had to plow their way through nearly half the Games to reap just two medals: the 1,500-meter silver taken by Flaim, and a bronze won with a bobble and a splat by Figure Skaters Peter Oppegard...
With three trips left to the mountain, regal Zurbriggen expects to rise again. On the Games' penultimate night, Figure Skater Katarina Witt will look to become the queen. At an audience that attracted the most notetakers of the week, the East German champion told her sweet stories in English and German: "I started skating when I was five years old, and my mummy went to the rink with me, and the coach put skates on me. It was quite wet on the ice . . . My mummy said, if I fall, my tights are going to get wet. So maybe that...