The Russian complaints about their treatment in the ice hockey and cross-country are arguably less concrete.

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Other items and services tested included a spa treatment, a cruise, bungee jumping, and ice cream.

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The treatment is called therapeutic hypothermia and at its core is the simplest of technologies: ice.

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