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Article: RUSSIANS STRUGGLE FOR BEAUTY - AND SUCCESS.(Sports)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- February 12, 2002
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Byline: ART THIELP-I COLUMNIST
SALT LAKE CITY -- Whatever name emerged from the political incarnation - Soviet Union, Unified Team, Confederation of Independent States, Russian Federation or the recent trendy moniker, Russia - it didn't matter. All knew who they were.
The New York Yankees of the Winter Games.
Finishing first or second in the medal standings every year since the Soviets began playing winter ball in 1956, the country that invented, perfected and exported the icicle has done its Olympic sports like no other.
Except lately. They finished third in 1998, behind Germany and Norway. This time around, the Russians read ...