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Time's story on controversial American skier Bode Miller drew sharply divided reactions from our readers. Many wrote to applaud Miller for his exciting, iconoclastic approach to his sport and his willingness to speak his mind. Other readers registered their disapproval of Miller as a party boy and poor role model It was good to read an objective article about Olympic skier Bode Miller [Jan. 23]. The cover photo was good too. Miller isn't a bad guy just because he loves the sport of skiing more than simply beating his competitors. He's capable of independent thinking...
...silver medal at the Roller Hockey World Championships with the U.S. National Team.In her home state of California, despite the high number of current American winter Olympians who hail from the area (13—third most for any state in the country), warmer weather sports like roller hockey prevail.Martin took up roller hockey when she was 10, and then a year later was asked to play for a local boys’ team. “In California ice hockey isn’t especially popular, but roller hockey is,” she says...
...Facebook group entitled “Actually Gordon Teskey Should Narrate in Middle-English For the Rest of My Life” currently boasts 54 members. But more importantly, he’s probably the only tenured professor on campus who regularly wears polka-dot ties. He often sports an old-school bowler cap while riding a yellow-wheeled bicycle around the Barker Center. With aplomb, even.Harvard’s only fashion columnist (yours truly) sat down with the Canadian-born Teskey, not to examine his recently published book on John Milton—who reads books, these days...
...gold medalist Jennifer L. Botterill ’02-’03 will also be hitting the ice, but for the Canadian team.While these young women will be fierce rivals this month, they share a common story of hardhip and dedication in a sport traditionally dominated by men.THIS IS A MAN’S WORLDBotteril and her teammates are more than just athletes—they are pioneers. Until recently, it was a widely accepted fact that unless women were in sparkly leotards and dainty white figure skates, they did not belong on the ice. In fact, many...
...things went right for Apolo Ohno during his 2002 Winter Olympic debut. On the ice he won gold and silver medals in short-track speed skating, propelling the popularity of the hypnotically dangerous sport, in which athletes whirl around a 111-m oval with no lane markers while wearing 25-cm razor blades on their feet. Off the ice his wisp of a soul patch and X Games 'tude helped him dominate the event known as Olympic buzz. He was so popular in Salt Lake City that even female fans wore fake Ohno patches; afterward he was named...