Word: skier
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...last week and two judges had placed Hughes's performance this evening below both Kwan's and Cohen's. Incomprehensible. Outrageous! Moreover, the entire Russian Olympic team was threatening to pull out of the Games this very evening. They'd been hard done because some cross-country skier had tested positive and Wednesday's hockey game was called too closely and there was still that thing with the Canadian pairs and, well, they were in fifth place overall and someone had to answer to Putin. (Or so speculated a Russian journalist at the press conference where Russia aired its many...
...last week and two judges had placed Hughes's performance this evening below both Kwan's and Cohen's. Incomprehensible. Outrageous! Moreover, the entire Russian Olympic team was threatening to pull out of the Games this very evening. They'd been hard done because some cross-country skier had tested positive and Wednesday's hockey game was called too closely and there was still that thing with the Canadian pairs and, well, they were in fifth place overall and someone had to answer to Putin. (Or so speculated a Russian journalist at the press conference where Russia aired its many...
...athletes who are the sole representatives of their countries at these Salt Lake City Games. From 20-year-old Shiva Keshavan, who carried the hopes of 1.1 billion Indians with him down the icy luge track (he came in a surprising 33rd out of 50), to slalom skier Gian Matteo Giordani, who will represent the tiny European enclave of San Marino today, none of them entered believing they had a chance to end up on the podium. Some, like South African Alpine skier Alex Heath, think they could strike gold, if only they had the funding (and the training...
...French ski team, still recovering from the tragic death in a training accident last October of super-G world champion Régine Cavagnoud. Carole Montillet, a close friend of Cavagnoud's, said that it had been very difficult to come to Salt Lake City without their outstanding skier. "As a team," she said, "we wanted to dedicate this Olympics to Régine." And she did it in the best way possible, by taking the downhill gold...
...Andrea Henkel, 24, part of a strong German team in Salt Lake City that has been bedeviling Sweden and Norway, the other traditional powers in cross-country and biathlon. A four-time junior champion, Henkel was surprised at her success. When her sister, Olympic cross-country skier Manuela Henkel, congratulated Andrea at the finish line, she didn't know she was in first place. She broke down in tears. "So you see," says Henkel, "I'm not always cool, calm and collected...