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Meanwhile, Bjorn Daehlie of Norway was (less surprisingly) becoming the first man in Winter Games history to collect his sixth gold as he struggled through a heavy drizzle to win the men's 10-km classical cross-country event. Yet what really crowned his victory was his own long vigil: he waited and waited at the finish line until the last competitor of all--from Kenya, finishing 92nd, 20 minutes behind him--staggered across...
Most embarrassing of all, the unlikely May-December alliance between the separatist snowboarders and the International Olympic Committee hardly survived even its honeymoon, as the aged judges said they would revoke the first snow-surfing gold medal ever--when traces of marijuana were found in Canada's Ross Rebagliati, winner of the men's giant slalom--and then were overruled, marking a triumph for rebellion. One foot was speeding forward, it seemed; the other was staying in place...
...faces, sometimes from the old familiar ones we had almost forgotten amid talk of an Olympic youth movement. Often, in fact, looking up at the podium, one could imagine oneself in some Eastern version of Sleepy Hollow. There was Artur Dmitriev, lifting his new partner Oksana Kazakova to a gold, with a long program of soulful if hardly flawless majesty, and collecting the medal he had won six years before. There was Georg Hackl, the businesslike German soldier, shooting away with the gold in the men's luge, as he had done in Lillehammer and in Albertville. And there...
...orange as he crashed through two retaining fences and ended up in a snowdrift without his skis (but miraculously walked away like the tough bricklayer he was). In the same race, Jean Luc Cretier, a customs officer who had never won a major downhill, skied to gold...
...stranger waking dream when, in an event that has ever seen only German, Austrian, Italian and Russian medalists, they abruptly took a silver--and a bronze. Indeed, second-place Chris Thorpe and Gordy Sheer came within 22/1,000ths of a second of the mighty Germans, who had collected a gold, a silver and a bronze in the previous three Olympics. Zipping down the track in their lemon yellow suits, the Americans (who recorded with their two teammates a theme song titled Arctic Evil Knievels) pumped their fists as they saw their 0-for-27 Olympic-medal streak...