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...finished last in the jump. There's a 2½-hr. break between the two events. "You put on your jump hat for a few hours, and as soon as jumping is over, you go snort down a sandwich and put on your cross-country gear," says Bill Demong, a member of the U.S. Nordic combined team who is competing in his third Olympics. (See TIME's complete coverage of the 2010 Winter Games...
...just change your clothes. "You change your mind-set completely," says Demong. "[Ski jumping] is very technical, and you've got to be really relaxed and just focused on swinging through it, essentially. In [the relay], you've got to get your game face on and get angry, get going ... You've got to be ready to hurt...
...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...