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| American luge racers end drought
Web-posted 2/13/98
NAGANO - American luge racers know how to handle not winning an Olympic medal. In 34 years of racing the Americans had never reached the Olympic podium.
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Swedes beat American hockey team
Web-posted 2/13/98
NAGANO - Don't start polishing those medals yet, boys. The U.S. Olympic men's hockey team made up of stars from the professional National Hockey League got a lesson in Olympic-style hockey from the defending gold medalist team from Sweden Friday.
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Olympic notebook: Crashes mark men's downhill
Web-posted 2/13/98
NAGANO - Jean-Luc Cretier of France won the men's Olympic downhill in a race marked by spectacular crashes. Lasse Kjus of Norway was second and Hannes Trinkl of Austria was third.
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| Call them champions
Web-posted 2/12/98
NAGANO - They've been called babes on blades, chicks with sticks, hockey honeys and a lot of other things polite people wouldn't repeat.
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| Postcards home
Web-posted 2/12/98
It seems that everywhere you go you can find little bits of home. Since I'm from Augusta, I always look for something that reminds me of the city, or of Georgia.
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| Notebook from Nagano
Web-posted 2/12/98
NAGANO -- Quirky weather continued to plague the 1998 Winter Olympics Thursday, forcing postponements and creating nasty conditions for some events that went ahead.
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| Americans strike double gold
Web-posted 2/11/98
NAGANO -- Americans struck double gold in the Winter Olympics Wednesday, easing the pain of a four-day drought full of disappointing performances.
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| Hockey star having a ball
Web-posted 2/11/98
NAGANO -- Sarah Tueting is having fun. When that happens the U.S. women's Olympic hockey team wins games.
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| Notebook from Nagano
Web-posted 2/11/98
NAGANO -- So if one sport had a gold medalist disqualified for using marijuana wouldn't you know it would be the free spirits of snowboarding?
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| Postcard home
Web-posted 2/11/98
Ohayoo gozaimasu,
Japanese is a very difficult language to learn because they don't even use the same alphabet as English. In fact they have a couple of different ways of writing things with symbols.
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Mogul skiers win first gold medal
Web-posted 2/10/98
NAGANO -- Jonny Moseley broke the U.S. Winter Olympic medal drought with a dramatic gold medal run in the moguls freestyle ski race that brought the screaming crowd to its feet Wednesday.
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Kwan looking for better than perfection
Web-posted 2/11/98
NAGANO - Michelle Kwan skated as close to perfection as anyone ever has in her last outing at the U.S. national championships. Now she wants to do even better at the Winter Olympics.
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Snow cookies choke Americans
Web-posted 2/10/98
NAGANO - U.S. women snowboarders choked on an extra helping of snow cookies Tuesday ending American medal hopes in a sport they were expected to dominate.
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Olympic notebook
Web-posted 2/10/98
NAGANO - Casey FitzRandolph thought he had finally figured out the new clap skates, but his path to a 500-meter speed skating medal was stopped by a hometown hero and a Canadian juggernaught.
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Postcard home
Web-posted 2/10/98
Please, please, someone from the United States win a medal. Any kind of medal in any kind of sport.
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