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...yard backstroke, was an extremely close race. Hart led for most of the race until around the 150-yard mark. Yale junior Moira McClosky came back and was able to sneak by Hart for the win, with Hart finishing second.The last event of the meet, the 400-yard freestyle relay, was close as well. Harvard trailed for most of the race with junior Emily Wilson, sophomore Meaghan Colling, and junior Noelle Bassi swimming the first three legs. Senior Erin Mulkey swam the last leg and she was able to close the gap a significant amount, but not enough as Columbia...
...something about this." The i.o.c. announced late Friday that the Austrian athletes' urine tests came back negative, but both Olympic and Italian officials said their investigation will steam ahead. Not all were cheering. Several of the Austrians searched, including two cross-country skiers who had the 4 ? 10-km relay the next day at 10 a.m. (they finished last), were outraged. "We were surprised in our room," said cross-country skier Jürgen Pinter. "Suddenly the police came in and didn't let us leave on the night before the competition. This happened without any positive results from doping...
...ever-present danger they are in alpine skiing, there are few things worse than losing or breaking a pole. So when Sara Renner's pole snapped midway through the Olympic women's cross country skiing team sprint race, the reaction was pretty near unanimous. "Oh no!" thought her relay partner, Beckie Scott, in the transition area below. "Not now, not here." "Oh my God, they've worked so hard for 12 years together and now, a stupid pole breaks!" recalled Sara's father Sepp Renner, watching in horror from the stands...
...sprint relay - a new Olympic event - one skier does a 1.1-kilometre loop and then tags her partner, who skis the same loop. Each skier completes three legs. After finishing second in the semifinal to advance, Renner started the first leg of the final. The Canadian tandem led after each of the first two exchanges and Renner was in the midst of an uphill section on her second loop when the pole broke. "I don't even know what happened, I just know that all of a sudden I was kind of flapping with one arm," she said, laughing...
...people auctioned were well known campus personalities including former Undergraduate Council President Matthew J. Glazer ’06, First Class Marshal Tracy “Ty” Moore II ’06, Former Harvard Concert Commission Chair Jack P. McCambridge ’06, and Relay for Life officer Hannah K. Ahn ’08. Although the lowest bid was ten dollars, other bids were in the hundreds. Former Lowell House Committee Chair, Kaartiga Sivanesan ’06 set the record for the auction when she sold for the whopping...