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...Lodwick's finish is the best result the U.S. has achieved in the sport's 78-year Olympic history. His teammates, Matt Dayton and Bill Demong, came 18th and 19th respectively. In Nagano, the best the U.S. managed in an individual Nordic combined event was 20th...
...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...
...program, the U.S. is getting results. For 48 years, it won no medals on the Junior World Cup circuit. In the past seven years, it has pulled in five. This World Cup season, the U.S. was the only country to field two individual gold medal winners, Lodwick and Demong. So forget the catchphrase from Nike's much-maligned ad campaign launched after the Atlanta Games: "You don't win silver. You lose gold." Todd Lodwick, his teammates and coaches, are all winners at these Olympics...
...Airborn is a full-time jumper; Todd Lodwick, 25, of Steamboat Springs, Colo., and Bill Demong, 21, of Vermontville, N.Y., are part-timers. The U.S. has traditionally stunk in their event, the Nordic combined; Lodwick finished 20th at Nagano. This Olympiad, the U.S. co-opted the competition, poaching head coach Jan-Erik Aalbu from Norway, a perennial medal winner. Lodwick, now ranked fourth in the world, has a gold and a silver this World Cup season. Demong won an event in the Czech Republic two weeks ago. "I was hoping we could be strong," says Aalbu. "I was not expecting...