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...Asian descent to play for the U.S. National Team at the Olympics in Salt Lake City, where her team took home the silver. She then went on to star at Harvard, until the national squad called again for its bronze medal showing at the 2006 Olympic Games in Torino, Italy. This season, Chu is back with the Crimson, capping off the farewell tour of her illustrious collegiate career, in which her 284 career points have made her the all-time leading scorer in NCAA history. Harbec, on the other hand, hails from St. Hubert, Quebec. The French-Canadian went...
AFTER BOTCHING A LANDING IN his first qualifying run at the Winter Olympics in Torino, Shaun White, a shaggy-haired, usually mellow snowboarder, nicknamed the "Flying Tomato" for his red mane, looked lost. "I got all Olympicky," he said of his nerves. He eased his mind with a few practice runs and nailed two 1080s--a 1080 is three complete rotations in the air--in the finals to earn gold...
...Bode Miller, the bad boy of Torino. Profiled and promoted in media as diverse as 60 Minutes, Rolling Stone and, ahem, TIME, he was bound to disappoint. But not the way he did. Of the five Olympic events in which he was expected to medal, he did not finish two, was disqualified in one and finished fifth and sixth in the others. After being touted as the best of America--talented, free-spirited and confident--he left Italy as that other type: reckless, careless and cocky. Currently ranked ninth in the world in overall Alpine events, he's making that...
Vaillaincourt continued to shine in the global spotlight, helping Canada win a gold medal in the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino...
...With no prior national team experience, and a slew of other seasoned vets vying for spots on the Olympic roster, Cahow seemed an unlikely candidate to make the final cut.But when the original forty-woman roster dwindled down to twenty, Cahow remained among the chosen to go to Torino...