Answers to the
crossword puzzle and word find appear on page 64.
Puzzles by Joel Kaplow 1 4 2 3
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4 ___ Brown finished in ninth place in Sochi, but had a ball as the youngest figure skating singles male on the U.S. Olympic Team since 1976.
6 “Queen” Yu-na Kim lost her Olympic ladies crown she had won in Vancou- ver, and settled for silver in Sochi. The surprise gold medalist was Adelina Sotnikova. Where is she from?
8 Russia grabbed the gold, Canada snatched the silver and the U.S. bat- tled for bronze at the 2014 Winter Games in the first-ever Olympic ___ figure skating competition.
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10 The venue for figure skating in Sochi was called the ___ Skating Palace. (Hint: It was designed to resemble a giant chunk of frozen water found floating in the sea.)
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12 Yuzuru Hanyu won his country’s first-ever Olympic men’s figure skating gold in Sochi. Where is he from?
13 Carolina Kostner of ___ took the la- dies bronze in Sochi, only the second Olympic figure skating medal for her country. The first was an ice dance bronze earned in Salt Lake City in 2002.
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14 Mao Asada of Japan landed a ___ Axel during her free skate in Sochi. She’s the only woman to do this difficult jump this past season.
15 The only gold brought home to the U.S. from the Four Continents Champi- onships in Chinese Taipei last January was won by ice dancers ___ Hubbell and Zach Donohue.
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Hi skaters! Try to find and circle the words listed below hid- den in the box of letters. The words will appear in a straight line in any direction (up, down, forward, backward or diag- onally), and some words may overlap and share letters. Find them all and you’ll be on top of the medal podium!
CAROLINA KOSTNER FOUR CONTINENTS GOLD MEDAL PALM TREES SCOTT MOIR
50 APRIL 2014
SOTNIKOVA TESSA VIRTUE TRIPLE AXEL WINTER GAMES YUZURU HANYU
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1 ___ Hamilton, the knowledgeable and excitable commentator for NBC at the Sochi Games, took the men’s Olympic gold medal at Sarajevo in 1984.
2 Sochi was an unusually warm site for the Winter Games, with ___ trees growing all over town!
3 How many total medals did the U.S. win at the Four Continents Champion- ships?
5 Russia’s Julia Lipnitskaya has amazing flexibility, reminiscent of ___ Cohen of the U.S., who won the ladies silver at Torino in 2006.
7 Ice dancers Maia and Alex Shibutani, who placed ninth at the Winter Games, have their own official YouTube chan- nel. What’s it called?
9 Reflecting her grace and toughness, Coach Frank Carroll’s nickname for the ladies fourth-place finisher in Sochi is Gracie, Warrior ___.
11 Ice dance made its first Olympic ap- pearance at Innsbruck, Austria, in 1976. After 38 years, which medal did Meryl and Charlie win for the U.S. for the first time?
12 After a tremendous, painful-looking crash on a quad attempt in his short program, ___ Abbott of the U.S. val- iantly rose up and continued his pro- gram to great applause from the Sochi crowd.
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