Winter Games Turin 2006; It All Slips Away From State Skaters; Split- Second Errors Ruin Hopes in 500

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Turin, Italy You train hard for four years, put in the time and the work, pay attention to every detail and get your mind right and your body strong, all for a chance to win a medal at the Olympic Games.

Then, in the first of two 500-meter races in long-track speedskating, you stumble within 50 meters of the start.

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Winter Games Turin 2006; It All Slips Away From State Skaters; Split- Second Errors Ruin Hopes in 500

Five seconds have elapsed, tops, and your medal hopes are gone.

Ice is slippery, as speedskaters like to say, but could there possibly be a sharper dagger in all of sports?

It happened not once but twice to returning Olympic medal- winners fr...

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