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...benefactor (speedskating is huge in the Netherlands), but a run on the bank caused DSB to go under in mid-October, leaving U.S. Speedskating with a $300,000 budget shortfall. "The Olympics are our Super Bowl, Masters and Tour de France combined," says Derek Parra, a 2002 speedskating gold medalist who is now one of the coaches for the U.S. team. "And we were scratching our heads at the table, wondering how we are going to get through the rest of the year. It's tough." (See TIME's photo-essay "What Becomes of Olympic Stadiums...
...classmates is an Olympic gold medalist. Another won a Nobel Prize. One donated enough money to the university that a building was named after him. One caused a change in the course of U.S. history. Only the first of these events was predictable during college. On the other hand, my guess is that 10 percent of my classmates are in poor financial straits. When one such tried to speak up at a reunion, he was ignored...
...ever wondered what deep thought might pass through the mind of a champion swimmer being honored as SPORTS ILLUSTRATED's female athlete of the year, flip to page 220 of Nicola Keegan's novel Swimming (Knopf; 305 pages), on which Philomena (Pip) Ash, fictitious Olympic gold medalist and the novel's heroine, observes that "it will be the only night in my life where I will dine almost entirely surrounded by people taller than myself...
...through the par-72, 6018-yard course, leading her team with a total score of 154, which put her in a tie for fifth. Building upon a first-day 78 with a second-day 76, she finished only four strokes behind Eva Mayr of Fairleigh Dickinson, who earned medalist honors at 150. “Mia’s been playing really well,” Rhoads said. “I’ve been expecting this kind of tournament from her any time now. She putted beautifully on greens that provided a lot of challenge for most people?...
LeBron James The NBA All-Star and Olympic gold medalist is a past TIME 100 honoree Jay Schottenstein, an Ohio business leader and philanthropist, has supported the translation and elucidation of the Talmud Bavli into English, Hebrew and French. The Schottenstein Edition of the Talmud is now utilized by more than 2 million people worldwide...