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Guerette and Lambert had never rowed before college, but both excelled in the sport when given the chance. CRASH-Bs is right to give aspiring athletes the chance to prove themselves at the world stage. But how many potentially great figure skaters, squash stars, or downhill skiers never get that chance? Perhaps one day, open events such as CRASH-Bs will be the norm, instead of the exception...
...Your wingmen in real life can help you in the same way in the online dating world,” explained Sunil S. Nagaraj HBS ’09, C.E.O. of Triangulate Corporation, which created the application. “Wings lets you know who I am, rather than how good I am at writing profiles...
...world may be obsessed with our sex lives, but Yalies seem to be obsessed with their own. Yeah, it's that time of year again, so get ready for Sex Week at Yale, the hottest event to hit New Haven since the naked party...
...Columbia's normal ski jump, built for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. The 25-year-old skier trains six days a week, 11 months a year, and has been jumping for the past 19 years. But when the Games kick off on Feb. 12, the 2009 women's ski-jumping world champion will be nowhere in sight. That's because women aren't allowed to ski jump in the Olympics. (See TIME's 25 Winter Olympic athletes to watch...
...play." Vancouver can accommodate only so many athletes, says Lamb, and whenever a new event is introduced, it limits the number of people able to participate in others. That, coupled with the IOC's list of criteria that a sport must meet before it is accepted - a history of world championships and a sizable number of athletes participating worldwide - made the women's ski jump an unlikely addition for 2010. And yet the IOC allowed Vancouver to add something called ski cross - a freestyle discipline in which multiple skiers race over bumps and jumps, like a snowy version of motocross...