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...complete body of work in her tenure with the Crimson, there didn’t seem to be a whole lot left for the senior to accomplish as she returned to the Bright Hockey Center after missing a season playing for Team USA at the Olympic Winter Games in Turin, Italy...
...might not be the Turin Shroud, but as far as myths go, this was a big one to debunk. On April 5, a French research team declared that the alleged remains of St. Joan of Arc were fake. The relics of the iconic saint - burned alive for heresy and witchcraft in 1431 but rehabilitated as a French hero in the 19th century - have been identified as the remnants of an Egyptian mummy, a small cat and scraps of wood...
...assembles in Grand Forks, Mich. for a pre-World Championships training camp on March 21, wrapping up on April 1 with the second of two scrimmages against Sweden, the country that knocked the U.S. from gold-medal contention with a stunning upset in the semifinal round last February in Turin, Italy. Then it’s on to the week-long IIHF World Championship in the Winnipeg area, where the Americans hope to defend their first-ever world title, earned when they outlasted Canada in a shootout in 2005. Before that, the Stars and Stripes had claimed eight straight silvers...
...round, while Dartmouth, after posting a losing record, didn’t even get a whiff of the national playoffs. It is simplistic to reduce the Ivy powerhouses’ recent reclamations to the return of their Olympians, who missed last season to participate in the Winter Games in Turin, Italy. Yet it is impossible to overlook the importance of these stars, three on the Crimson’s side and four on the Big Green’s, in energizing two of the country’s best statistical offenses and elevating the play of those around them. Four...
...final season, she ranks a close sixth on Harvard’s career scoring chart, and she has competed on the U.S. national ice hockey team since 2000, according to gocrimson.com. Chu brought home a silver medal in the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City, then a bronze from Turin in 2006. She is the first Chinese-American woman to represent America on the Olympic ice hockey team. If “talented” is the first word that comes to mind when describing Chu, “humble” is definitely the next. When asked how being...