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Citius, Altius, Fortius, and they give you the gold: it's the Olympic Way. But figure skating is not there yet, and this makes Nagano tough to handicap. With styles for every judge's taste, the program will include Todd Eldredge, 26, the five-time American champ from Chatham, Mass., who is back on form after suffering shoulder and rib injuries but has yet to land a quad in competition; a pair of elegant young Russians, Ilia Kulik and Alexei Yagudin, exemplars of old-school, glamour-puss skating; and a sleeper. American Michael Weiss, 21, from Fairfax, Va., will hope...
...smooth spot where a speed bump had always been. "So I didn't have to make some real crappy turn like we usually do up there. I carved a fatty," she says with some admiration for the slingshot turn that blew her off the fast track to Olympic gold. "That's when I decided, when I saw where I was going to hit, that the potential for me to blow out both my knees right now is pretty high, so I'd better just blow my left one out again. [The surgeon] can clean it up when he goes...
...look out below. The ponytailed tomboy queen of the downhill is back, running on Picabo Standard Time. A human cannonball at 5 ft. 7 in. and 158 lbs., she recovered from her injury about twice as fast as most people would have. But most people don't have Olympic gold as the top item on their list of unfinished business. Street has lately zoomed close to her world-beating form, posting a fourth-place finish in a World Cup downhill at Cortina, Italy. But her comeback took a scary detour in a downhill last Saturday at Are, Sweden, when...
...THURSDAY Snowboarders will be grabbing big air while Elvis hopes the judges won't be cruel. Norway's freestyle star Bjorn Daehlie will try for an Olympic-record sixth gold...
...SATURDAY Picabo will have to beat out defending champ Katja Seizinger for downhill gold. In women's hockey, it will be U.S. vs. Canada (a preview of the finals?). Men's free skate...