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Hate crime unites U.S. luge team
The Associated Press
LILLEHAMMER, Norway — Wendel Suckow holds up a snowy glove to describe the difference between him and fellow luger Duncan Kennedy on any given day.
"Two-hundredths of a second," he says, spreading his thumb and forefinger to the width of a healthy bread stick. "When you think about it, it's almost ridiculous."
For the past three years Suckow, Kennedy and teammate Robert Pippins have been leapfrogging each other by fractions of seconds, pushing for faster times on their tiny sleds until the U.S. ule team has become a leading force in international meets.
The success has a downside.
“it's hard in a sport like ours to build the team unity you'd like because there is a point when they're competing against one another,” said Ron
Rossi, executive director of the U.S. Luge Association. "There is a tension because if you win, you're on the Olympic team; if you lose, you're going home."
Days are a succession of hotel rooms and narrow, icy luge alleys where success is determined by how little resistance you create with your environment.
Then, two days before Halloween, the familiar ride came screeching to a halt on a bumpy patch of ugly reality.
Celebrating a teammate's birthday at a pub in Oberhof, Germany, Pipkins and Gordy Sheer were confronted by a skinhead decked out in a wardrobe of hate.
Sheer, who is Jewish, and Pipkins, who is black, took exception to what the angry youth had to say.
"They asked the kid, What's your problem," Kennedy recalls. "He stated his case. They stated they weren't
happy with him and it was kind of left at that. Or so we thought."
Instead, another 10 to 15 skinheads marched in and began making monkey noises at Pipkins. The lugers tried to leave.
"I saw they were following us," Kennedy said. "I told Rob to run like heck and get out of there. They stopped at me, and I said to leave him alone. I was really unset at that point."
The skinheads encircled Kennedy, knocked him to the ground and took turns kicking him. Kennedy, a California surfer who once decorated his sled with Bart Simpson stickers, returned to the hotel with a mild concussion, a broken nose, various bruises and an altered view of the world.
"I never experienced anything like it," he said. "You could feel the hatred. Just the fact that someone had to run from these guys because of the color of his skin made me so angry I
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The ugly incident was an awakening for Pinkins.
"You read about it (racism) and hear about it, but you say it won't happen to me," says Pipkins, an engineering student at Drexel University.
The team has tried to return to its routine, but memories of the incident linger. Kennedy went back to Oberhof last month to testify against three of his attackers; the team returned for a strong showing in a World Cup competition.
Something else happened.
CBS plays with 'toys' for Games
"It brought them closer together," said Rossi.
The Associated Press
tech gear will include a camera planted in the helmets of U.S. hockey goalies Mike Dunham and Garth Snow, and a come-and-go camera that conveys the speed of skiing.
The come-and-go cam, which earned an Emmy for the network in Albertville, France, provides an instant switch as each skier passes a specific point in the course. Gentile likens it to the ground-level camera
LILLEHAMMER, Norway — Television technology has plenty of toys available for CBS Sports' coverage of the Winter Olympics, and Rick Gentile, the network's senior vice president of production, intends to use them all.
The helmet cam is an attempt to present hockey from the perspective of a goalie. To use it, CBS needed approval from USA Hockey, the spartan's governing body, as well as from coach Tim Taylor and Dunham and Snow.
When 16 days of action begin on Saturday, Gentile's assortment of highused in auto racing coverage.
"It's mounted on the side of the helmet, like a third eye," Gentile said.
"The camera is located in a slot in the helmet that is wired to a battery pack. It's not just for replays. We can go live with it. It's not obtrusive or dangerous."
And, perhaps most important, it appears indestructible.
"The picture was not disrupted when the goalies fell on it making a save," Gentile said.
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