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Article: US-Russia puck drama plays on: It's not 1980 and the cold war is gone, but this remains a great hockey rivalry.(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- February 19, 2002
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Byline: Jim Klobuchar Special to the Christian Science Monitor
SALT LAKE CITY -- To extract the ultimate jolts of suspense and electricity from the last days of the 2002 Winter Olympics and its collisions on hockey's ice, you have to revert to the atmosphere of the gray days of the cold war.
It used to be that when the Russians brought their athlete-warriors into the arenas of America, they were met with the same affection accorded Dracula crashing a Dick Clark pajama party.
The environment has changed, true. But if the Americans and the Russians play one more hockey game this week with the passion and kinetic power of their first game of the ...