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...other action at the XIII Winter Olympics, Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden stormed back from fourth place in the men's slalom and captured his second gold medal. Phil Mahre of Yakima, Wash., who led after the first of two runs, took the silver half a second behind. Jacques Luethy of Switzerland finished third...
Yesterday's first run of the men's giant slalom made for the biggest surprise of the day, as highly favored Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden stood in third place behind Lichenstein's Andreas Wenzel and Hans Enn of Austria. If Wenzel maintains his position and wins the gold, he will complete the first brother-sister alpine-medal winning act in Olympic history. His sister Hanni won the women's downhill Sunday...
Tuesday, Feb. 19, 8-11 p.m.: The giant slalom presents the finest male skier in the world: Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark, 23, who dissects mountains with the cool aplomb of a heart surgeon. Stenmark's top rivals: Yugoslavia's Bozan Krizaj, Liechtenstein's Wenzel and the game Mahre, whom Killy calls "a first-rate athlete." At 11:30-11:45 p.m., Eric Heiden tries for gold in the 1,000 meters...
...Sweden, Stenmark is a national hero on a par with Tennis Professional Bjorn Borg. With his freckles and curly hair, Ingemar has an appealing, boyish look that should...
...shuns. Despite this self-imposed handicap, he leads in total points for this year's World Cup. Says he: "I just do not have time to train well enough for the downhill without cutting into the time I find necessary for the slalom and giant slalom." Adds Mahre: "Ingemar is a very precise man, a high-precision skier, and the slaloms are precise and perfectible. The downhill is just a matter of going fast...