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...protect their longtime hold on Nordic events from the Russian, Ukrainian and Czech skiers hot on their heels. Austrian ski great Hermann Maier will attempt to complete his miraculous comeback from a near fatal motorcycle crash in 2001 by adding to his two Olympic gold medals. German speed skater Anni Friesinger will face a strong field of U.S. and Canadian racers. Japanese ski jumpers, Korean short-track speedsters and even the British curling team are vying for a medal or two. As for that final gold-medal match in hockey, North Americans would like to see a U.S.-Canada showdown...
...easy being a German winter-sports star. There are so many of them. Take speed skater Anni Friesinger, a glamour girl who has posed ... um, er, provocatively for the popular press. She had to wait until the Games' second week before taking her first medal, a gold in the 1,500 m. In the first week she came in a disappointing fourth in the 3,000 m and fifth in the 1,000 m behind fellow Germans like bitter rival Claudia Pechstein and teammate Sabine Voel-ker, a triple medal winner...
...eyes are on Anni Friesinger - and not just because of her habit of posing for risque photos. The German speed skater rides an unmatched winning streak into Salt Lake City, having lost only one middle- and long-distance race all season. At the Games, she plans to skate in four events - the 1,000, 1,500, 3,000 and 5,000 m - and is a heavy favorite at 1,500 and 3,000. Friesinger spoke with TIME?s Jeff Chu from her pre-Olympic training base in Calgary, Canada. Excerpts...
...Anni Friesinger thinks speed skaters are sexy. "Our speedsuits are very light and you can't hide anything," she says. "We have big muscles, but they're not that big. And it's muscle, not fat. It does look good." But ask the 25-year-old German if she said, as has been reported, that skating is "pure erotic," and she'll deny it - sort of: "I didn't say it! They asked me yes or no, so I just said...
...Boeth, MaryAnne Golon, Hillary Raskin (Deputy Picture Editors); Robert B. Stevens (Associate Picture Editor); Kevin J. McVea (Operations); Sarah Buffum, Gary Roberts, Cristina T. Scalet, Nancy Smith- Alam, Marie Tobias, Mary Worrell-Bousquette (Assistant Editors) Bureaus: Martha Bardach, Paul Durrant, Leny Heinen, Stanley Kayne, Barbara Nagelsmith, Mark Rykoff, Anni Rubinger, Mary Thompson, Simonetta Toraldo Photographers: Forrest Anderson, Terry Ashe, P.F. Bentley, William Campbell, Greg Davis, Dirck Halstead, Barry Iverson, Kenneth Jarecke, Cynthia Johnson, Shelly Katz, Steve Liss, Peter Magubane, Christopher Morris, Robin Moyer, Carl Mydans, James Nachtwey, Robert Nickelsberg, David Rubinger, Anthony Suau, Ted Thai, Diana Walker...