AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
Slip Sliding; In an Olympics filled with humbled front runners and spectacular falls, one skater brought grace to the Games.(Shizuki Arakawa )
Byline: Mark Starr
She made the Japanese Olympic team in Nagano as a 16-year-old, but was left off the team four years later. She won the 2004 World Figure Skating Championships, ending Michelle Kwan's reign with a stunning array of combination jumps. But the following year she finished ninth. And she made it to the 2006 Games by finishing third in the Japanese national championships. Such consistent inconsistency hardly portended big things for Shizuki Arakawa in Torino. But that should have been a sign in these topsy-turvy Olympics, in which some of the most-hyped stars have fallen short. The 24-year-old Arakawa performed with barely a bobble, leaping past Russian world champ Irina Slutskaya and America's Sasha Cohen for the ladies' gold medal. It was the first-ever gold for a Japanese figure skater, and the sole medal in any sport for the Japanese team here. "I couldn't think at all with the gold medal around my neck," said Arakawa of her upset triumph. "I can't really find any words for it."
In truth, Arakawa was good, not great, as she didn't ...
- New Hampshire voters giving a scare to both presidential front-runners.
- News wire article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service December 16, 1999 700+ words
...the-nation presidential primary, front-runners have become underdogs and yesterday...voters' rich tradition of rattling front-runners and winnowing the political field...s so much that we like to knock off front-runners,'' said Don Mayo, a Nashua insurance...
- Clinton, McCain are front-runners for 2008 U.S. presidential race.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire June 22, 2005 700+ words
...McCain. They can wait. And wait, as front-runners tend to do. "They're 800-pound...credible candidates before the early front-runners decide whether to seize center stage...looking for supporters and pressuring the front-runners to get out of their comfort zone...
- FRONT-RUNNERS FRANCISCO LABASTIDA & ROBERTO MADRAZO STEAL SPOTLIGHT IN...
- Magazine article from: SourceMex Economic News & Analysis on Mexico September 15, 1999 700+ words
...primary. Four candidates participated in the debate, but front-runners Roberto Madrazo Pintado and Francisco Labastida Ochoa attracted...interior secretary and former Sonora state governor. The two front-runners, both of whom have hired US political consultants as campaign...
- Ball State U.: COLUMN: Front-runners rarely make the final cut.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire January 25, 2007 700+ words
...than others, this is not necessarily indicative of who the front-runners are going to be and who in the end is going to be elected...Democratic primary race in 2004, we can look at who the early front-runners were in the Democratic Party's campaign. Howard Dean was...
- Finding God: On the trail, the front runners are confessing their religious...
- Magazine article from: Newsweek February 7, 2000 700+ words
...in Campaign 2000, vague is out--at least among the two front runners. George W. Bush, with a Christian right to consider...taken for a political platform: a careful look at the four front runners' public statements, and NEWSWEEK interviews with each...
- Two Private Equity Firms Appear To Be Front-Runners To Acquire Chrysler.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire March 14, 2007 700+ words
...FinancialWire-14 March 2007-Two Private Equity Firms Appear To Be Front-Runners To Acquire Chrysler (C)2007 Investrend Communications...FinancialWire) Two private equity firms appear to be the front-runners in the quest to buy DaimlerChrysler AG s (NYSE: DCX) troubled...
- Fundraiser collects $200,000 in 'seed money' for Gilmore: Former Va. governor...
- News wire article from: Richmond Times-Dispatch (Richmond, VA) March 28, 2007 700+ words
...to reinvent himself to secure the nomination, unlike the front-runners. Many of those in attendance worked in the Gilmore administration...ran into financial difficulties. He criticized the three front-runners for the GOP nomination. He said Arizona Sen. John McCain...
- Front-Runners in California Governor Race Are Like 'Odd Couple'.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News August 25, 2003 700+ words
...lifting 50 tons of weight -- a day. Although the election won't be held for 43 days, for now this unlikely pair are the front-runners in California's unprecedented recall. The latest statewide poll, released Sunday by the Los Angeles Times, found 35...
- Front runners: Top 150.
- Magazine article from: The National Provisioner Petrak, Lynn May 1, 2003 700+ words
...profiled on these pages can attest, the best advice may be to buckle in, hold on, and see what happens in the next turn. FRONT RUNNERS TOP 150 TYPES OF OPERATIONS NET 03 02 SALES RANK RANK COMPANY (MILLIONS) 1 1 Tyson Foods Inc. $23,300 Springdale...
- Front-runners' leads slipping: Voter indecision growing ahead of state primary.
- News wire article from: Record (Stockton, CA) October 26, 2007 700+ words
Byline: Hank Shaw Oct. 26--SACRAMENTO -- The two front-runners for their parties' nomination for president are losing ground among partisans, according to the latest Field Poll. Former New...
Source: HighBeam Research, Slip Sliding; In an Olympics filled with humbled front runners and...