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...POSTURE The classic images of T. rex showed him standing upright, with tail near the ground for stability. The correct posture is shown in this skeleton from Chicago's Field Museum: the beast balanced its weight over its hips like a seesaw...
...seem to have missed the mark with your Olympic preview. I noticed skiing, skating, snowboarding, the skeleton, sledding (men's and women's) and then men's hockey. What happened to the 1998 gold-medal-winning U.S. women's ice-hockey team? They are a talented group of athletes who train as hard as anyone else going to the Olympics. KAREN SOLOMON Worcester, Mass...
...short-track speed skating race. I did find it a little odd that despite my never having set foot on an ice skating rink or anything more difficult than a green square mountain, I’ve been this deeply enthralled with events from snowboarding to the skeleton...
...Ohno, a 19-year-old Japanese American who just may be the coolest teen on the planet, is an avatar of the new breed of Winter Olympian. Jim Shea Jr. is the ultimate throwback, and his triumph in the age-old but just reintroduced sport of skeleton was a fairy tale to top all others, except possibly Kostelic's. Riding with Shea inside his helmet was a photograph of his grandfather, a former speed-skater who had been America's oldest living Winter Olympics champion until his death in a car crash just before the Games. The Sheas are legends...
...Take skeleton. It was a Mr. Cornish who decided to take the St. Moritz track headfirst during the 1887 tobogganing Grand National. So not only is skeleton not new, it is downright hallowed and has been in the Olympics before, most recently...