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Bronze medal in cross country!  < 2:59:05 PM>.Wobbly Russians stole Canadas gold. USA Today Feb 15 2002 2:06AM ET [Moreover - moreover...] A sampling of headlines and quotes. < 2:43:45 PM>.CBC News: Gold for Sale and Pelletier: "Marie-Reine le Gougne, the French judge at the centre of the controversy, had been suspended. Her results were thrown out, creating a tie between the Canadians and the Russian pair Yelena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikharulidze. The Russians will keep their gold medals. A ceremony to present SalïF8E and Pelletier their gold medals will be held on Feb. 21, the last day of skating for the Games. " Well, that was quick. Here's hoping it doesn't shortcircuit the push for reform of the judging in figure skating. < 12:35:36 AM>.Salon.com News | Flight of the wonder boy: "The evening kicked off with women's 500 meter speed skating, featuring what the commentators called the biggest lock of the Games, Canadian Catriona LeMay Doan. Doan is the Marion Jones of the short ice, basically unbeatable -- she tends to win whatever she enters, she won gold in Nagano -- and she breezed through the first of her two runs at the top of the pack. There is something oddly inspiring about watching someone who is just plain better than anyone else, like Michael Johnson or the great hurdler Edwin Moses. It arouses an atavistic, Beowulfian, you-swing-the-baddest-broadsword-so-hail-to-you kind of reverence." I'm not very happy with myself about not having been up on the story. I think I was just thinking too much about the pleasure of seeing that amazing specimen again. < 12:18:10 AM>.The Globe and Mail: Breaking News: "No one beats this woman in a speed-skating event that matters. No one has in almost a year, and Thursday night, with the weight of a nation on her shoulders, Le May Doan was everything she was supposed to be ïFD1 fast enough, first and golden. Canada's 24-karat speed racer." < 12:09:06 AM>.The Globe and Mail: Breaking News: "It's part of my personality. I want to walk around with confidence and yet if I ever gave an aura of cockiness I would hate that."" Definition of a Canuck |
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