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All the new sports, in fact, left their mark: snowboarders
treated the Olympics as if they were a halfpipe, as expected,
and curling captivated so many television viewers across the
world with its stately version of Go-on-ice that in Sweden
viewers protested when a local channel switched to figure skating.
Sometimes the Nagano Games could seem less dynamic than
aerodynamic as competitors muttered about clap skates and luge
"booties" and strips on speed skaters' uniforms that helped them
fly. But all the machinery in the world couldn't erase the
piercing human moments: Harada, with his back against the
temporary wall of a cafeteria, after his failure to win gold in
the normal hill jump, a copy of the results sheet in a glove
that said japan; or Cammi Granato, the captain of the U.S.
women's hockey team, after a black-lacquer disk with gold dust
was hung around her neck, simply holding her face in her hands,
overwhelmed.
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