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...Kostelics make a specialty of firsts. When the Croatian government issued the first postage stamp to honor a sports personality, Janica won the distinction - after becoming women's slalom and overall World Cup champion in 2001. Not to be outdone, elder brother Ivica set out to establish his own first and became the first person to win a World Cup race from the lowly start position of 64th out of the gate. Not bad for a couple of kids from a country with little tradition in skiing. If both perform to their undoubted ability in Salt Lake City they could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two For The Snow | 2/4/2002 | See Source »

...much for Janica, who was widely tipped to win gold at the 2001 World Championships in St. Anton. She fell in the slalom leg of the combined and finished fifth in the slalom event. The overwhelming disappointment affected her so badly that her father and coach, Ante, told the Croatian newspaper, Vjesnik, "She's quitting at the end of the season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two For The Snow | 2/4/2002 | See Source »

...still won races. During the 1996-97 season Janica won all 22 junior races she entered. Despite that impressive record, in her first World Cup season, 1998-99, her third place in a slalom event at Park City, Utah, took officials by surprise. They couldn't find a Croatian flag for the award ceremony and Janica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two For The Snow | 2/4/2002 | See Source »

...national men’s eight, rowing under USRowing, is the six-time defending champion and has earned the first bow number. Deutscher Ruderverband, the German national team, has the second start. Another top competitor in this event is the Croatian Rowing Federation, the silver medallists in this year’s World Championships...

Author: By Jessica T. Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cambridge Heralds Head of the Charles | 10/19/2001 | See Source »

...Still, capping a 24-hour period during which a Greyhound bus crashed in Tennessee after a Croatian man slashed the driver's throat, and Indian commandos stormed a grounded airliner in New Delhi only to discover that its 'hijacking' was a hoax, it's hardly surprising that the Black Sea air disaster raised fears of terrorism. After all, the flight originated in Israel and most of its passengers were Israeli. The crew of a nearby Armenian Airlines plane reported seeing an explosion aboard the doomed plane, before it spun down into the sea. And Russian and Ukrainian media have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Missile Accident Suspected in Russian Crash | 10/4/2001 | See Source »

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