Word: austria
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...their feet. No wonder the rest of the world has a hard time catching them. Without fuss and fanfare, the sparsely populated Scandinavian country has won more Winter Olympic medals - 240 before arriving at Salt Lake City - than any other competitor, and that includes the Alpine powerhouses of Austria and Switzerland, and the huge teams from the U.S. and Germany...
...fancy skating for women, Mme. Herman Szabo-Plank of Austria won first, with Miss Beatrice Loughan, American, second, and Miss Theresa Blanchard of America, fourth...
...Omen Austria's notorious far-right populist politician and inveterate headline-grabber Jorg Haider visited Iraq this week for a friendly meeting with Saddam Hussein...
...fancy skating for women, Mme. Herman Szabo-Plank of Austria won first, with Miss Beatrice Loughan, American, second and Miss Theresa Blanchard of America, fourth...
Montillet, who has won only one World Cup race - and that in super-G - flew down the Wildflower course in a time of 1 min. 39.56 sec. to beat Italy's Isolde Kostner and the pre-race favorite, Renate Götschl from Austria. Götschl gracefully described Montillet as "one of the best skiers in the world." "I am very happy for her," she said. "She is a good girl." Montillet's success against two skiers who had proved themselves in international competition with nine world and World Cup championships between them was all the more surprising, since...