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...produces the Winter Games' biggest thrills and most spectacular spills. The favorites: Liechtenstein's Andreas Wenzel and Canada's Ken Read. Top U.S. challenger: Phil Mahre, 22, now recovered from a badly broken right ankle. At 11:30-11:45 p.m. comes cross-country skiing. Bill Koch, first American to win a medal in the event-a silver in 1976-will try again for glory...
...BILL KOCH. Americans do not win crosscountry ski races. So when Bill Koch, a reclusive Vermonter from Putney (pop. 1,789), won the silver medal in the 30-km race at Innsbruck in 1976, the first U.S. medal ever in Nordic siding, nobody was there to notice. In fact, after the race was over, Koch had to go out again in his uniform and skis so that photographers could take his picture for the papers back home...
Since then, lots of people have noticed Bill Koch. Says Koch: "Suddenly there was pressure from all sides. Every tune I competed, people expected me to win. Becoming a top contender, I soon realized, had been easy compared to staying on top." Koch went into a slump that deepened as he was bombarded with questions. He has now completely revised his style, stretching out his once choppy stride and strengthening his arms in an attempt to generate more power on the uphills. And as the Olympics have drawn closer, he has emerged again, better than ever at age 24. Good...
Which Vermont High School graduated Bill Koch...
What chronic ailment makes Bill Koch's races even more difficult than they would be for a healthy person...