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...technical events, Miller is staying on course and in control. Coaches credit his talent for recovering from hopeless situations. Miller has always been what some commentators call a "recovery artist," a skier who can pull himself back from the brink by sheer athletic ability. In early January at the Adelboden race in Switzerland, he skipped the warm-up run, lost his pole a quarter of the way down on his first run, nearly crashed at the bottom, and still finished just 0.18 sec. off first place. Toni Giger, head coach of the Austrian team, the best in the world, calls...
...giant-slalom event in Val d'Isere, France, and then drove seven hours to Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, the next day and won a slalom event. No other American had won two events in a row since Phil Mahre in 1983. Then, in early January in Adelboden, Switzerland, Miller won a race by nearly 2 sec. It's an astonishing margin, like winning by 20 m in a 100-m dash. He has been on the winners' podium eight times this season, compared with three last season...
...these days amid the usual shriek packs of star-struck teenage girls. Tomba often gratifies them by performing somersaults at the finish line and, as a seal of success, placing a smooch on his dog, a white husky named, fittingly, Yukon. Is Alberto a god? One supporter arrived in Adelboden prepared: he had recorded what was to become the skier's total season wins to date on two tablets, like the Ten Commandments...
...three of the five giant-slalom meets he has entered this season and in all seven slalom competitions. The 1,050 points to his World Cup credit virtually freeze out all trailers in the field. Second-ranked Kosir, 480 points behind, had only praise for his friend at Adelboden. Marveled the 22-year-old Slovenian: ``He skied the last five gates flawlessly...
...warned against that risky business by his mother--sound advice it may be, for injuries have also dogged his rivals. If there is a cloud on Tomba's horizon, it is Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg, a five-time world champ. Girardelli finished 18th at Adelboden, but his third-place Cup total of 563 points still gives him a theoretical shot at the title. He has 12 races left, while Tomba has just four: two this weekend in Furano, Japan, before a season finale on the Italian's home ground in Bormio. Unlike Tomba, Girardelli competes in all five World...