Word: skeletonized
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...last Thursday, Canada suddenly came alive, winning four medals: in speedskating (silvers in both men's and women's team pursuit), women's skeleton (Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards, bronze) and men's figure skating (Jeffrey Buttle, bronze). Buttle's medal was particularly welcome, as he had fallen during his short program. "It's unbelievable," he said. "I would have never thought I could come back." Then came a one-two finish Friday in the skeleton for Calgary firefighter Duff Gibson and World Cup leader Jeff Pain. Gibson, 39, who immediately retired from his sport, has the distinction of being the oldest...
...Torino, Canada finished second to Germany in medals in the World Cup, and it has top competitors in almost every field. Speedskater Cindy Klassen has a shot at three or four medals, and the skating team overall could win seven. Among other favorites: skeleton riders Mellisa Hollingsworth-Richards and Jeff Pain have dominated World Cup circuits this season; cross-country skiers Beckie Scott and Sara Renner have won seven World Cup medals; and the men's and women's curling and hockey teams are all but shoo-ins for medals, each a favorite for gold. The only question is whether...
...police were visible and, until the disco music drowned them out, watchdog helicopters whirred overhead. As for the internal controversies of the Olympics, they were on parade even before the opening ceremony. Propecia sounds like an Olympian god and so it had its sacrificial victim. At 26, U.S. skeleton driver Zach Lund uses the drug to reduce his hair loss, but it's banned because it can mask the use of steroids. As a result, he has been banished from the games. Wayne Gretzky, head of Canada's hockey team, is being stalked by a scandal linking his wife Janet...
...before the U.S. Olympic Committee's deadline for eligibility - even though a parent of a rival ice dancer lobbied senators to oppose the bill. Yet not every athlete desperate to find a welcoming Olympic team makes the cut. Greece's national bobsled and skeleton teams include at least two Canadians and three Americans with dual citizenship, but they still didn't qualify for the Games. Austrian skier Josef Strobl had no chance to penetrate his country's talent-deep ski team. So Strobl, who had a Slovenian great-grandfather, tried for a spot on Slovenia's team - but didn...
...internal controversies of the Olympics, they were on parade even before the opening ceremony. Propecia sounds like an Olympian god, and so it had its sacrificial victim. U.S. skeleton slider Zach Lund clearly needs the drug, used to reduce hair loss due to male-pattern baldness but shouldn't have used it. As a result, he has been banished from the Games because Propecia can mask the use of steroids. In another roil, Wayne Gretzky, head of Canada's hockey team, is being stalked by a scandal linking his wife Janet Jones and a close associate to a mess...