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...Austria were not pained enough, Switzerland's Michela Figini and Maria Walliser showed the way in the women's downhill run. Erika Hess, the Swiss slalom star, had no happier time than Tamara McKinney, the U.S. World Cup champion, who was fourth in the giant slalom but hooked a gate and tumbled in the slalom. "You have to take chances to win," she said. "I took one too many." On the last day of the Games, Phil Mahre, the three-time overall World Cup champion, the most accomplished skier in U.S. history, finally won his gold medal...
...hard to swallow, but an American newcomer whose name kept slipping out of the mind as the season began (Jim Johnson? Bill Jones?) won the most dramatic event of the Winter gambols, and all three women's race winners were known only to journalists who traveled the World Cup circuit. Armstrong was obscure, but so was Paoletta Magoni, 19, an Italian who won the slalom when half the women entered fell or missed gates in a thick fog. And Ursula Konzett, a 24-year-old Liechtensteiner, took the bronze. The only known quantity here was France's Perrine...
Women's squash at Yale (Howe Cup...
Millions of TV viewers in the U.S. watched in awe one day last month as Californian Bill Johnson, 23, streaked down a Swiss Alp and became the first American ever to win a men's World Cup downhill race. His teammates were jubilant, but no more so than the company that makes his ski boots. The day after Johnson's victory, executives at Swiss-owned Raichle Molitor U.S.A. began planning a new advertising campaign to celebrate the performance of the skier and his gear. The slick ads, picturing Johnson at full tilt, will soon appear in the pages...
SEPARATED. Chris Evert Lloyd, 29, tennis champion (three times at Wimbledon, six at the U.S. Open); and John Lloyd, 29, one-time member of Britain's Davis Cup team; after nearly five years of marriage, no children. Explained Chris: "We need time to be by ourselves...