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...cross-country skiing, where crashes aren't the ever-present danger they are in alpine skiing, there are few things worse than losing or breaking a pole. So when Sara Renner's pole snapped midway through the Olympic women's cross country skiing team sprint race, the reaction was pretty near unanimous. "Oh no!" thought her relay partner, Beckie Scott, in the transition area below. "Not now, not here." "Oh my God, they've worked so hard for 12 years together and now, a stupid pole breaks!" recalled Sara's father Sepp Renner, watching in horror from the stands...
...sprint relay - a new Olympic event - one skier does a 1.1-kilometre loop and then tags her partner, who skis the same loop. Each skier completes three legs. After finishing second in the semifinal to advance, Renner started the first leg of the final. The Canadian tandem led after each of the first two exchanges and Renner was in the midst of an uphill section on her second loop when the pole broke. "I don't even know what happened, I just know that all of a sudden I was kind of flapping with one arm," she said, laughing...
...Renner, in her third Olympics, won an Olympic medal for the first time. She had long competed in Scott's shadow until winning a bronze medal at the world championships in the sprint last year. "We promised we wouldn't say, 'It's like a dream,' because I think we really earned this," Renner said. "We have been medal contenders in this event and to actually do it at the Olympic Games, in 20 years we can have a reunion and reminisce about this day. We can share it with each other and that's pretty special...
...That really annoys us, to have [the game] come down to that type of play, and to have it taken away from us. But that’s something we have to fight through.”“The official that made the call certainly did a sprint 50 yards. I thought he was running out the door he was running so fast,” Sullivan said. “Usually, when people run away from the scene of the crime like that, something’s up.” Harvard must quickly overcome the bitterness...
...Finally, I'm worried that it will soon be overshadowed by phones from Samsung and LG, built to run on Cingular's new high-speed network. Verizon and Sprint have radically expanded their entertainment offerings over the past few months and Cingular is apt to try and keep up. The SLVR is sexy and slim, but broadband it ain't. That might not matter to the target customer whose main concern is to talk - and look good doing...