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Meanwhile, Bjorn Daehlie of Norway was (less surprisingly) becoming the first man in Winter Games history to collect his sixth gold as he struggled through a heavy drizzle to win the men's 10-km classical cross-country event. Yet what really crowned his victory was his own long vigil: he waited and waited at the finish line until the last competitor of all--from Kenya, finishing 92nd, 20 minutes behind him--staggered across...
...never seen snow until 1996, when he was recruited by Nike to test the proposition that good runners make good skiers. He has cut his time for the 10-km classic race from 2 hr. to a creditable 30 min. But Boit has no illusions about challenging Norway's Bjorn Daehlie, who won the 1994 gold with a time of 24:20.1. "Even if I finish dead last," says Boit, "I will be proud of myself as long as I improve my time...
...THURSDAY Snowboarders will be grabbing big air while Elvis hopes the judges won't be cruel. Norway's freestyle star Bjorn Daehlie will try for an Olympic-record sixth gold...
...sports network ESPN. The tour has grown from 35 tournaments with a total purse of $8.7 million a decade ago to 43 events with $41.65 million in prize money today. The future of senior tennis looks just as bright, with crowd pleasers such as Jimmy Connors, 45, and Bjorn Borg, 41, attracting fans to the Nuveen Tour for players 35 or over, and globe-trotting grand masters like Rod Laver, 59, and Ken Rosewall, 62, continuing to dazzle with their skills...
...only tyro from outside the U.S. Appleby, who is 9th on the money list, is from Australia. At least four members of captain Seve Ballesteros' European Ryder Cup team are under 30: British Open runner-up Darren Clarke of Northern Ireland, 28; Lee Westwood of England, 24; Thomas Bjorn of Denmark, 26; and Padraig Harrington of Ireland, 25. "This youth thing is definitely catching on," says Kite...