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...credit to the triumph of women's athletics, I guess, that the female bout was the main event. Harding tromped into the ring like the bitter little ball of anger we remember so fondly from 1994. (She was introduced as "the only world-class athlete" of all six competitors, omitting the whole unpleasant knee-bashing business, but I'm sure Jones had her gloves inspected for horseshoes anyway.) The giggly Jones seemed to think the whole match was a big joke. Neither woman would disclose her weight because, you know, women who volunteer for Fox Celebrity Boxing...
...Lake Placid. The real miracle on ice happened last week, when Australian Steven Bradbury, 28, won his country's first-ever Winter Olympic gold medal. With only one lap to go in the men's short track speed skating 1,000-m final, Bradbury, who'd never had a world-class solo victory, was trailing far behind the other four skaters. Then the pack crashed and Bradbury cruised past the carnage from worst to first. "I was like, 'Hang on a minute, I think I just won,'" Bradbury told Time. "I'm probably the luckiest gold medalist in the world...
...This is not your average Olympian talking, but then Nagvajara, 43, isn't actually a world-class athlete. The first person ever to represent Thailand at a Winter Games, he was lapped and eliminated from his first event, the 30km, less than a third of the way through. Even in the relatively short time he spent on the Soldier Hollow course, he had time to fall, have the wind knocked out of him, get cramps and lose his goggles...
...adept at all. Tamara has never seen me skate, but she said if I was five years younger, she’d be happy to be my coach,” he says. “It’s too late to become a world-class skater, but it’s not to late to enjoy skating for what it is—recreational and enjoyable. I just move around the ice and feel proud of myself for that...
...Bringing in world-class faculty is expensive and, in a declining economy, it becomes more difficult to balance the budget,” Newman says...