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...hours before the most important race of his career, U.S. speed skater Chad Hedrick was a calamity. Thirteen years ago to this very day, his grandmother, Geraldine Hedrick-"my buddy"-died of brain cancer. The combination of grief, cabin fever- he arrived in Torino twelve days before the Games ("rolling around in bed takes it toll on you")-and the pressure of his first Olympic race drove Hedrick to tears. And into the stands, where friends and family tried to calm his down. "I kind of felt like a sissy," says Hedrick...
...Geraldine. "I could just feel it." One down, four to go: Hedrick, who is chasing Eric Heiden's record five speed skating gold medals, will next race on Wednesday, in the Team Pursuit, a new event for the Torino Games. In the pursuit, two countries, each with three skaters, race head-to-head in an eight-team tournament. The three teammates take turns "pulling," or leading, the team throughout eight laps (in long-track speed skating, the oval is 400-meters). The team whose third skater crosses the finish line first is the winner...
Harvard, which wound up 1-for-5 on the power play, had no trouble drawing penalties in the early going, earning three extra-skater chances in the first 13 minutes alone...
...advantages in each of the first two periods, but just one in the third—on a checking call artfully drawn by speedy junior Jennifer Sifers—as the string of whistles that marked the beginning of the game largely vanished towards the end. That extra-skater opportunity also went for naught, though, as Harvard found itself able to do everything but put the puck in the net. “We had good looks at the net on our power play,” Stone said. “I’m happy with...
...going. It finally permitted a score on the eighth and final Bulldogs power play. Meanwhile, the Crimson derived just its lone goal from its five man-advantage opportunities, firing a mere seven shots. That was a far cry from the 15 shots on goal it generated with an extra skater the previous night. For Harvard, the struggles carried over from its first post-exam contest last Monday against the Big Green. The Crimson, which boasted the number-two power play in the country entering this past week, went 1-for-5 during that game...