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...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 also become the first Croatians to win Winter Olympic medals...
...downhill at the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer and gold in the super-G at the 1998 Nagano Games. The FIS, recognizing that skis are getting faster and that skiers could fly beyond the limits of the nets, regularly recommends modifying courses by shaving the lips of jumps and setting gate controls before jumps to slow the racers down...
...Harvard alpine and nordic skiing teams stumbled out of the gate in their first carnival of the year, with a last-place finish this past weekend in Bethel, Maine...
Next came the Dec. 13 rampage. At 11:40 that day, one of the Toontown-type sedans used by Indian bigwigs got through the Parliament gates in New Delhi because it had an official-looking light on top and a home ministry decal on the windshield. Five militants got out and started firing assault rifles and grenades as they moved toward three separate entrances of the structure. None got inside; one man, who was wired with explosives, detonated himself near the main gate, through which he could have reached the chamber filled with legislators. After some 20 minutes of gunfire...
...Next came the Dec. 13 rampage. At 11:40 that day, one of the Toontown-type sedans used by Indian bigwigs got through the Parliament gates in New Delhi because it had an official-looking light on top and a home ministry decal on the windshield. Five militants got out and started firing assault rifles and grenades as they moved toward three separate entrances of the structure. None got inside; one man, who was wired with explosives, detonated himself near the main gate, through which he could have reached the chamber filled with legislators. After some 20 minutes of gunfire...