Word: liechtensteiner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...downhill, a 70-m.p.h. drop on Whiteface Mountain, is likely to be decided by a few hundredths of a second after a long day's racing. The downhill usually 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...
Europe's premiere skiers will be gunning for the graceful Swede at Lake Placid. His chief competition figures to come from Andreas Wenzel, 21, of Liechtenstein, who stands second in World Cup points this year. Others to be watched, in addition to America's Mahre, are three swift Swiss: Jacques Luethy, Peter Müller and Peter Lüscher, who won the World Cup last year. Wenzel's sister Hanni, 23, the current World Cup leader, is heavily favored in the women's slaloms She will be tested by Annemarie Moser...