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...Harvard penalty kill had excelled on the Whittemore Center’s wide ice surface in erasing five penalties—four of which were charged to the squad’s young defenders—against the country’s statistically-best team with an extra skater. “That bummed me out at the end,” Stone said. “We killed every penalty until the last one. That was disappointing. You play 5-on-4 for a large part of the game, you’re going to be pretty tired...
...golden boy, Siddney Crosby, 18. And injured figure-skating star Michelle Kwan, 25, last week said she would skip the U.S. championships, which double as the sport's Olympic trials, and petition for one of three spots on the Torino team. If her petition is granted, another deserving skater stays home...
...commercials on NBC are already touting America's medal hopefuls for next month's winter Olympics, and most of them feature fan-favorite figure skater Michelle Kwan. But Kwan's Olympic dream may be in jeopardy after an injury forced her to withdraw from the U.S. national figure skating championship, the qualifying event for the Games. Whether or not she will compete in Torino is now in the hands of the 36 figure skating officials, judges, coaches and athletes that make up the international committee of the U.S. Figure Skating Association (USFSA...
...This isn't the first time that Kwan's Olympic quest has depended on a committee decision. But the last time a female skater received an injury waiver onto the U.S. Olympic team, in 1994, it was Kwan who had to make way for Nancy Kerrigan despite finishing second at the nationals. Kerrigan was granted a spot after being struck on the knee by an accomplice of rival Tonya Harding during a practice session at nationals. "It's ironic that the last person bumped off the Olympic team was me in 1994," Kwan said. "But they do have rules...
...While the committee generally sends the top three finishers from the nationals to the Olympics, this year they will consider each skater's performance at the nationals, as well as her results from earlier events, including last year's world championships, at which Kwan finished fourth...