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...over Middlebury was arguably even more significant. The Panthers, as their website boasts, are the only NCAA team with two alums skiing in Vancouver, including Nordic skier Simi Hamilton, and the team took the eighth spot in last year’s national championships...
...doesn’t even have a top skier but rather a trio of top racers in captain Audrey Mangan and freshmen Alena Tofte and Esther Kennedy. The three have exchanged places all season. Mangan led the way at the early races and the Williams Carnival races, while Tofte led the charge in the University of Vermont and Dartmouth Carnivals, with Kennedy right behind her. Junior Cara Sprague is not far behind these three and finished second on the team in the 15k free event in the St. Lawrence Carnival. Continued development of interchangeability will allow Harvard to compete against...
...downhill, a small mistake cost him the gold medal - "I blew the whole race on one turn," he said afterward - but his technical ability on a nasty, icy course earned him the bronze. None of the fancied racers from Austria or Switzerland came close, and the winner, the Swiss skier Didier Defago, was another dark horse...
Call it the Tiger Woods-Roger Federer debate, Winter Olympics-style. On Wednesday, the two most heavily hyped Americans in the Vancouver Olympic Games, skier Lindsey Vonn and half-pipe snowboarder Shaun White, lived up to the billing and dominated their respective events, winning two golds. Like Woods in golf and Federer in tennis, they're both transcendent talents who have set the standards of greatness in their sports. One of the more popular arguments among sports fans is the question of whose accomplishment is more impressive, Woods' 14 major golf titles or Federer's record 16 Grand Slams. What...
...When asked which sport is tougher, downhill skiing or half-pipe snowboarding, the skiing crowd protects its turf: "I know what [snowboarders] do is massively difficult," says Chemmy Alcott, a skier from Great Britain who finished 13th in the downhill race. "But just being on skis, you can create so much more energy and speed than a snowboarder." Another biased observer, Vonn's younger sister Karin, offers one of the more rational reasons for favoring her sibling's sport. "It's like comparing gymnastics to football," says Karin, 21, a student at the University of San Diego. "With...