Word: ivica
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...Kostelics make a specialty of firsts. When the Croatian government issued the first postage stamp to honor a sports personality, Janica won the distinction - after becoming women's slalom and overall World Cup champion in 2001. Not to be outdone, elder brother Ivica set out to establish his own first and became the first person to win a World Cup race from the lowly start position of 64th out of the gate. Not bad for a couple of kids from a country with little tradition in skiing. If both perform to their undoubted ability in Salt Lake City they could...
...retire but the agony of losing seemed to aggravate the pain from the old knee injuries and she underwent three separate operations through the summer, returning to racing in November and slowly improving her results to a fine third place in slalom at Berchtesgaden in January. Her determination moved Ivica to say, "Janica's a great fighter. I think mentally she is the strongest in the World Cup, not only for the women...
...straight after he'd won the war for Britain. Only weeks after the death of the man who led them to independence from Yugoslavia, Croats handed his opposition a landslide electoral victory. With 84 percent of the vote counted Tuesday, a center-left alliance headed by former communist Ivica Racan holds an overwhelming lead over Tudjman's nationalist party. "Croatians want to end the economic and political isolation that Tudjman's policies brought on Croatia," says TIME Central Europe bureau reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "The opposition plans to liberalize the economy and attract investment, as well as make Croatia more firmly...