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Johnson won the contest, and push-off came to shove-off. Racine, as top driver, chose Johnson, the best pusher. Bakken, the No. 2 driver, took Flowers. When the music stopped, Davidson had no seat. Roy insists that his coaches didn't make the call: "Jean chose Gea." Whatever. Warner was pusherless on the eve of the trials. She scrambled but didn't qualify. "Maybe my role in all of this was to make other people's dreams come true," Warner says gamely. "It's hard to be happy with that, but I have...
Davidson, in no way as inured to the cruelties of big-time athletics as Warner, becomes the latest sad chapter in bobsled's legacy of oustings. In 1976 Swiss driver Erich Scharer ejected his brother three days before the Olympics; he won two medals. Just this season the woman who took Racine's mantle as top gun and gold-medal favorite, Germany's Susi-Lisa Erdmann, had four different partners...
...hallmark of most newly minted rock stars, but Bennington, 25, and his mates in the Los Angeles-based band Linkin Park are exceptional in more than mere fiscal prudence. Linkin Park shocked the record industry by selling 4.8 million copies of its debut rap-metal fusion album, Hybrid Theory (Warner Bros. Records), to eclipse 'N Sync, Shaggy and Britney Spears as the top-selling act of 2001. "We're stunned," says DJ Joe Hahn. "We expected to tour in an RV for three album cycles before anything even close to this happened...
...called Linkin Park, go check out their MP3,' pretending like we weren't in the band." When interested kids e-mailed asking for more music, the group sent back mountains of tapes and instructions to pass them out to anyone with ears. By the time Linkin Park signed with Warner Bros. in November '99, the group had fans in Scotland, Japan and Australia and a worldwide thousand-person unpaid street team...