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Bergoust, a.k.a. Air Bergy, the defending gold medalist in aerial skiing, sees these Games as a huge opportunity for his sport to "transcend skiing." Says he: "An aerials event in sunny blue sky is the most beautiful thing." Aerials tickets sold out before the downhill tickets, and competition will take place in front of some 13,000 fans in a festive atmosphere at Deer Valley...
...Danny Kass, 19, is a show in himself. He blends natural talent with technical style and a blatant disregard for Olympic trappings like coaching, training and discipline. "I'm just here for the beer and [babes]," Kass said after qualifying for the Games. Still, he may pick up some gold as well: Kass is one of the few riders who has pulled off a 1080, or three revolutions, a move that will be a prerequisite for podium status...
Apolo Ohno is scheduled to be a star. He is the best short-track speed skater in the world, and he could win a gold medal in each of his sport's four Olympic events. At 19, he has the fresh-faced good looks of a boy-band member, a marketable name and a signature style--flowing hair beneath a red bandanna and a soul patch under his lower lip--that makes him instantly recognizable. Abandoned by his mother as an infant, reared in Seattle by an itinerant Japanese hair-stylist father, Ohno has also waged the personal struggle required...
...both were riveted by short-track skating, in which competitors race around a tiny oval in tight packs, with no marked lanes, at speeds of up to 35 m.p.h. It's human NASCAR. Ohno had already won a national in-line skating championship, but Rollerbladers don't compete for gold. So Ohno put himself on ice, and Yuki, happy to see his son inspired, shuttled him to lessons and meets...
Patriotism does not flow easily in Russia anymore. And if anyone has a right to shut his heart to Moscow, it is Slava Fetisov. The country's greatest hockey hero throughout the 1980s, Fetisov, 43, won two gold Olympic medals and one silver, seven world championships and the Order of Lenin. Yet Fetisov spent the late '80s being systematically harassed by his government. After being denied, year after year, the right to play in the National Hockey League as he had been promised, Fetisov decided to sue the U.S.S.R. for his freedom...