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Chasing Glory 2014
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CORNUCOPIA OF TALENT
IN 2006, THE TEAM SWEDEN WON OLYMPIC GOLD after controversially losing (some say tanking) a round-robin game to Slovakia that got the Tre Kroner a favorable quarterfinal draw against Switzerland. In 2010, karma struck when those same Slovakians beat the Swedes in the quarterfinal, so this year the powerful Nordic nation will be looking to make amends. They certainly have the horses to do it and though the Swedes have spectacularly bombed out of the Olympics in the past – the infamous quarterfinal loss to Belarus in 2002 comes to mind – this team will have a lot of youthful energy. That will be important, since this is the first Winter Games to include NHLers in which future Hall of Famer Nicklas Lidstrom will not be patrolling the back end in…
PRESSURE BEYOND PODIUM
SOCHI, RUSSIA – SOMEHOWyou have to think diehard communists Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin would not be amused if they could see how this faded Black Sea resort has been transformed from a “workers’ paradise” into the host city of the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. Sprawling 90 miles along the Black Sea coastline, Sochi has long been a palm tree destination point for Russians. The first revellers were upper-crust socialites in the times of the czars, who flocked en masse for the city’s subtropical climate and grand beachside spas and sanatoriums. And when the czars were booted out after the 1919 civil war, Sochi became a playground for the Communist party brass and for “selected” workers whose dedication to the glories of the one-party socialist state were rewarded with a week at…
OLYMPIC STATS
ALL-TIME OLYMPIC LEADERS 2010 VANCOUVER, CANADA 2006 TURIN, ITALY 2002 SALT LAKE CITY, USA 1998 NAGANO, JAPAN CANADA ALL-TIME LEADERS USA ALL-TIME LEADERS 1920-2010 RESULTS…
BRUIN MEANS BUSINESS
THEY KNOW MOST PEOPLE think they can’t win a medal, let alone gold. They’re not offended. It’s OK, says Zdeno Chara, captain of Slovakia’s Olympic entry, just as long as nobody on the team thinks that way. “We have to perform, do our best," he says, "even if our lineup or our country doesn’t produce as many talented hockey players, or every year we don’t have such a strong team as other countries. We can't afford to be thinking ‘Hey, we’ll just go there, play a tournament and it’s OK if we just play mediocre.’” That sort of attitude simply wouldn’t fly around Chara, captain of the Boston Bruins, whowillcompeteinthe Olympics for the third time. He’s a proven leader with a 2011 Stanley Cup, two World Championship silver medals and a history of…
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