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Easily the most remarkable element of the show is the technical construction of its costumes and props. Actors dressed as blades of grass sport spindly wicker frames around their waists that resemble a more fluid version of hoop skirts, swaying and swirling like reeds in a gentle Sahara breeze. The coarse spines of hair snaking along the hunched backs of the hyenas create spooky, spiky silhouettes...
During curling's run in the Olympics every four years, much of the sports-viewing world gets either strangely addicted or totally bemused by watching the old guys push stones and sweep brooms in what often looks like shuffleboard on ice. But at this year's event, emotions seem to be at an all-time high. Every day, capacity crowds of 5,600 are filling the Vancouver Olympic Centre, mostly to cheer on Canada, home to 729,000 of the 1.1 million curlers around the globe. The atmosphere is even more electric than the scenes in arenas for other sports...
...certain pair of pants is also making the sport tough to watch. The Norwegian men's team is sporting garish red, white and blue harlequin-looking trousers that make golf attire look swank by comparison. The slacks have generated so much attention that as the Norwegian team was walking off the ice after destroying France 9-2 on Monday, a Canadian fan asked if he could buy them right from the players. The Norwegians declined, preferring not to enter the post-game interview area in their undies. "We knew it was going to get a lot of attention," says Norwegian...
...Athlete to athlete, it’s easier to understand where someone’s coming from, even if you don’t know the sport,” Alemany says...
...rigors of the sport and the added stress of balancing her schoolwork, Hughes—whose favorite Harvard-related memory is attending the Harvard-Yale football game freshman year—knows how to make time for her more social extracurricular activities...