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...bronze from Salt Lake City, make her the winningest Canadian Olympian ever. Although a favorite to win multiple medals heading into Torino, her jittery performance in the 3,000-m event during the Games' first week got the doubters going. In the 3,000 m, Klassen overreacted to Dutch skater Ireen Wust's blazing time in an early pairing by altering her game plan, breaking out too quickly and dying in the last turn, where she nearly lost balance before recovering for the bronze...
...fall of 2003, none of that seemed possible. A crash with another skater in a corner of the Olympic Oval in Calgary left Klassen with a horrific gash in her forearm. Lying on the ice in shock, Klassen didn't fully comprehend her predicament until she began to read the expressions on the faces of the skaters and coaches surrounding her. A blade had severed tendons, an ulnar nerve and, most dangerously, a major artery...
...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...
...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...