Meissner 6th and satisfied
When others fell, Shizuka Arakawa did not, allowing the Japanese skater to win her country's first medal at these Olympics and avert a Russian sweep of the figure skating events....
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Meissner keeps a sharp edge
From the time Kimmie Meiss- ner skated her short program Tuesday night to the time she found out she finished in fifth place, "it felt like I competed days ago,"...
Meissner’s agenda: fun, clean program
Kimmie Meissner must be channeling Nancy Kerrigan. Meissner, who skates her short program tonight in her first Olympic competition, says her goal is to "have fun, skate clean and not...
Just say Meissner has arrived
Kimmie Meissner got gold-medal questions yesterday at a downtown news conference. Speed skater Chad Hedrick, who won the 5,000-meter race last Saturday, asks about her availability to skate doubles with...
Nice on ice
She's not supposed to be here. Kimmie Meissner's Olympic plan called for a showdown with the world's best figure skaters at the 2010 Winter Games. Tear up the blueprint. She's...
Off ice, Meissner doesn’t skate around questions
The contrast could not have been more stark. In a practice with top-secret Pentagon overtones, Sasha Cohen worked out behind locked doors yesterday and then slipped out a side door...
Meissner’s teenage take: `Nice . . . neat . . . excited’
In a practice with top-secret overtones, Sasha Cohen worked out behind locked doors Thursday, then slipped out a side door without talking. Kimmie Meissner followed with a loose and open...
Awed Meissner takes in Turin
On the first day of the Winter Olympics, Kimmie Meissner met Laura Bush and heard Luciano Pavarotti and Peter Gabriel sing and Yoko Ono give a reading. But the person...
Kupets carries ‘whole package’
To understand what makes Courtney Kupets the best women's gymnast in the country, you have to stop the action. Look at photos of her on the uneven bars, the vault,...
Kupets could vault Hill into head coach’s spot
Event by event, gymnast Courtney Kupets is building a case -- for her coach, Kelli Hill. When U.S. Olympic Committee officials meet in Texas from July 13 to 18 to...