Word: torino
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...seed Team U.S.A. in the semifinal was described widely as a Lake Placid moment for women?s hockey. The Swedes caught the Americans on a bad day, maybe looking ahead to the Canada game. The result effectively rendered the gold-medal match as predictable as finding pizza in Torino. Tickets for the gold medal game were going for all of 3 Euros on Monday...
...they stay cool when the reputation--even the identity--of their country rests on their shoulders? The solution, say Canadian hockey stars at the 20th Olympic Games, is to seek out the mundane. As the Olympic hockey tournament began its march toward the grand finale at the Torino Games this Sunday, Canada's finest sought out a little normality by hitting Torino's shopping malls and gorging at local ristoranti. Some players were "itching to play cards--friendly games," says defenseman Adam Foote, in a joking reference to the gambling scandal that has cast a shadow over the team...
...stars as Sidney Crosby and Jason Spezza. The fiercest competition is likely to come from the Czech Republic, Sweden and Finland. Team USA and Switzerland are both regarded as dark horses, while Russia--a longtime nemesis that hadn't been expected to be a threat--has been playing in Torino as if it has nothing to lose. The Russian team is young, assembled by former NHL star Pavel Bure and led by rising players, including NHL rookie-of-the-year candidate Alexander Ovechkin. That can't be reassuring for the Canadians. In Olympic history, Canada's record against Russia...
...matter how well Canada does as a whole, it's the performance of the men's hockey team that matters most. That helps explain the passionate sideshows that have flared at Torino. There was, of course, the Gretzky gambling controversy. Then news broke over new legal action against Team Canada star Todd Bertuzzi in connection with an on-ice NHL attack against Steve Moore in 2004. But rather than become distractions, Canada's hockey players say that if anything, the controversies have further unified Team Canada. "Growing up in Edmonton, watching [Gretzky] play with the Oilers, I remember how much...
...hoping Sasha Cohen dates gold medalists." SHAUN WHITE, American snowboarder, after winning the men's half-pipe competition at the Torino Olympics, referring to the popular U.S. figure skater