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...Olympic medal - and partly the shiveringly fast pace she was making around the track. She missed those last two shots and ended up with a bronze. "I'm very happy that I finally have an Olympic medal," said Forsberg, though she was clearly disappointed it wasn't a gold. Later in the week, she came in third again, this time in the 7.5-km sprint...
...Germany's Sven Hannawald and Adam Malysz of Poland. But by the time Ammann leapt out into the pristine air over the Utah Olympic Park, he knew his final jump would be a good one. With a distance of 98.5 m and a perfect landing, it gave him the gold. He thus became the first Swiss ever to win in Olympic ski jumping...
...attempt, Hannawald jumped short and fell on landing, which pushed him back to fourth place behind Finland's Matti Hautamaeki. With Malysz in silver- medal position, Ammann knew he had to pull out a good jump. He did, launching the competition's longest jump, 133 m, for his second gold. "I knew immediately that this was the jump," he said. "It was such a good feeling...
...those electrically charged and totally magical Olympic moments, American Jonny Moseley, the 1998 freestyle moguls gold medalist, soared off the end of the jump. Twisting and rotating 720? horizontally in the air, he landed the ostentatious stunt he calls the dinner roll. A crowd of 14,000 in stands perched on the side of a Utah mountain waved flags, clanged cowbells and cheered. Loudly...
Lahtela won the gold medal with two solid tricks and the fastest speed down the mogul course. Not that he's against flamboyance. "This is show business and you have to please the people," he says. "What Jonny is doing for the sport is good." But you also have to please the judges, the clocks and the calculators who put the scores together. And at that Lahtela proved he is the master...