Question

This country’s Dubin Inquiry followed a doping incident by a competitor who posted the title time in the ESPN film 9.79* (“nine point seven nine asterisk”). This country (emphasize) hosted an Olympics that the film Cool (-5[1])Runnings chronicled as the Olympic debut for the Jamaican bobsled team. In this country, the Marathon of Hope was run by amputee and cancer patient Terry (10[2])Fox. This country’s figure skating duo of Moir and Virtue secured a gold medal with a lift called “The Goose” at the 2010 Winter (-5[1])Olympics in this (10[1]-5[1])country. For 10 points, what country had torch-bearers like Steve Nash and Wayne Gretzky begin a Winter Olympics in Vancouver? (10[2])■END■

ANSWER: Canada (The first line refers to Ben Johnson, who posted that time at the 1988 Olympics in the 100 meter dash.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Keegan Martin (UG)NYU ASwarthmore A30-5
Frank Paz (DII)Swarthmore ANYU A5610
Ben Rotko (UG)Swarthmore BNYU B5610
Aiden Palermo (DII)RutgersColumbia A80-5
Udbhav Bodapati (DII)University of Delaware APenn83-5
Andrew Yang (UG)Columbia BUniversity of Delaware B8310
Geoffrey Wu (UG)Columbia ARutgers10310
Elias Ziyadeh (DII)PennUniversity of Delaware A10310

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2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers)10/14/2023Y5100%0%60%80.20