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...years (although he always claimed it was not doping but a form of paramedical disease prevention). Now there was evidence that Mayer was staying with the Austrian team during the Games and was perhaps up to his old tricks. Pescante, a 67-year-old Cabinet Under-Secretary for Sport who is also an International Olympic Committee (i.o.c.) member, told Time the organization "felt provoked" by Mayer's presence after he'd been denied official Olympic accreditation. Although Pescante said he was "just passing the information on" to the Carabinieri, Olympic officials were well aware that Italy...
...immediately classed one as a socially undesirable, Spam-eating “mathlete” who had eight cats. I speak from experience—I wore them when I was six. It was in that year that I routinely got bloody noses at inopportune times and started to sport a white eye-patch, which clipped on to my glasses. I was legally blind in one eye—that was my only excuse for why I also wore leggings with giant, purple, velour sweatshirts. I looked like an extremely undersized, genetically-deformed version of Deborah Gibson. I can almost...
...1990s, culminating with a no-medal performance at the 1998 Nagano Olympics, Hockey Canada analyzed the problems with the sport's development at home and adapted some European techniques to improve the style of play. But the Europeans learned how to hit like Canadians and yet continued to develop their own fluid game. During the Olympics, former Italian skiing sensation Alberto Tomba noted that hockey is identified with Canada in the same way as soccer is to Italy, and skiing to Austria. But today hockey is also a prominent sport in Finland, Sweden, Russia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and other...
...Martin of Sweden, named top goaltender in the tournament and committed to play at the University of Minnesota-Duluth, says women's hockey is under-funded in her country, convincing girls to play the sport is no easier today than five years...
...fallen during his short program. "It's unbelievable," he said. "I would have never thought I could come back." Then came a one-two finish Friday in the skeleton for Calgary firefighter Duff Gibson and World Cup leader Jeff Pain. Gibson, 39, who immediately retired from his sport, has the distinction of being the oldest person to win an Olympic winter gold in an individual event...