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...Lodwick - and the U.S. media - thought he had a decent chance of winning a medal, particularly considering his two podium finishes on this season's World Cup circuit and his strong showing in Saturday's ski-jump leg of the two-sport event. After breaking his boot during a training jump on Thursday, Lodwick decided he'd still prefer to compete with his familiar footwear. It was a good choice. Even in difficult wind conditions, he leaped into seventh place. Bill Demong, 21, of Vermontville, NY, took eighth...
...champion speed skater and an Olympic gold-medal-winning luger, grew up in the ski-resort town of Blaadfrey. At age four he was sent to private school in the Alps and then to the Olympic Training Center in Vienna. By 15 he was traveling the Grand Prix World Circuit...
Professional sports, and football in particular, have never been my passion. It’s a dark—if poorly concealed—secret, and not one to be discussed publicly. There are a few exceptions to the general rule: I casually follow the pro tennis circuit, and I’ve even been known to enjoy the few Major League Baseball games I attend each summer. But on the whole, professional sports have never really appealed to me. When it comes to football, the sport no red-blooded American male can live without...
...smile (and undress) for the camera, has made Friesinger a darling of fans and media. And as much as people like her off-the-ice antics, her on-the-ice success is at least as noteworthy. The 2001 world all-around champion, she has dominated the World Cup circuit this season, winning all but one of her middle- and long-distance races and establishing herself as the hot favorite for Olympic gold...
...Minister for Culture Cathérine Trautmann announced her intention to create a new exhibition space in Paris for young artists - modeled on existing centers in London, Amsterdam, Berlin and New York - in an attempt to revive the French capital's flagging reputation on the international contemporary art circuit. This delicate mission was entrusted to Nicolas Bourriaud and Jérôme Sans, a pair of maverick art critics and exhibition curators who wowed the faceless bureaucrats at the Culture Ministry with a proposal teeming with 21st century buzzwords. Their brainchild would be a "living laboratory of contemporary...