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At her medal ceremony, Stoddard didn’t just step onto that podium. She leaped, then raised her arms in triumph. The saddest Winter Olympian was finally, mercifully, happy.

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I’m a pragmatist, so I’m inclined to take your side. You were horny, your wife was indisposed, you did what you had to do.