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...This year, again, he started faster than the rest. Miller won six of the first 10 races of the season, and he did so in all four disciplines, from the highly technical slalom event to the nail-biting, death-defying downhill. The last time anyone did that was Marc Girardelli, skiing for Luxembourg in 1988. But Girardelli needed 71 days to accomplish the feat. Miller, characteristically, took just 16. "I find my groove pretty quickly," Miller concedes with a shrug. He had just finished a day of downhill training and a late-night volleyball game to top it off. "Four...
...mush out of slopes for downhill racing, in which Tomba never competes. As a boy, he was warned against that risky business by his mother--sound advice it may be, for injuries have also dogged his rivals. If there is a cloud on Tomba's horizon, it is Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg, a five-time world champ. Girardelli finished 18th at Adelboden, but his third-place Cup total of 563 points still gives him a theoretical shot at the title. He has 12 races left, while Tomba has just four: two this weekend in Furano, Japan, before a season finale...
...Aamodt, whose ski-coach father used to blindfold him on skis to teach him the feel of the snow, he is fast succeeding the Austrian Marc Girardelli, who competes for Luxembourg, as the world's best all-around skier. Leading in World Cup points, the charismatic Norwegian skis both downhill and slalom and could well rack up more medals this week. "In Norway we used to have the attitude that you should not do something special -- or at least you should not think you are special," Aamodt said. "But now we are developing a winner's attitude...
...even more attractive than Jane Fonda's (pasta and sleep and plenty of female company); he predicted success, and for a while he transcended his predictions. By the time he accelerated through the final five gates of his second run in the giant slalom to ease past archrival Marc Girardelli and became the first Olympian skier to defend a championship, Tomba had left his signature in capital letters on the Games. Afterward, unshaven, in a baseball cap, with balloons around his neck, making comments about his prowess that his interpreter decided not to translate, "La Bomba" all but ensured...
...Helmut Girardelli, autocratic father and coach of Luxembourg's Marc Girardelli, entered a restricted area and insisted that a barrier on the Face de Bellevarde course be moved to allow skiers a safer turn. Furious race officials confiscated his credentials for interfering, but they moved the barrier...