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...cross-county course into a postcard. American Brett Camerota, who at 25 is the youngest member of the U.S. team and supposedly its weak link, finished almost three seconds ahead of Finland's Ryynaenen in the first leg of the relay, giving the Americans the lead. American Todd Lodwick, making his fifth Olympic appearance, held it, but Austria slowly gained ground, and Felix Gottwald opened a 14-sec. gap against the third American racer, Spillane. (Watch a video about how Todd Lodwick trains...
...damn satisfied," says Demong. On Thursday, the U.S. will have one more opportunity to snare that elusive gold, in the individual "large hill" competition. "I'm not surprised," says Tomas Slavik, a Nordic combined athlete from the Czech Republic, of the U.S. performance. "Bill [Demong], Johnny [Spillane] and Todd [Lodwick] came up together as juniors and have been doing this for a long time. America is a force." Now when they trek through Europe on the Nordic combined circuit, the skiers can leave the sleeping bags at home. And they won't have to flee the bagman...
...that finish would hurt Lodwick in the other half of Nordic combined, the cross-country skiing event. The best jumper gets to start skiing first, with the others following in order of how they placed in the ski-jump; first person to cross the finish line wins. That meant that Lodwick would begin his cross-country ski two minutes and fifteen seconds behind the leader. Lodwick, a strong skier, likened his chances of a medal to that of a football team that is two touchdowns behind in the final quarter...
...John Elway [who wore number 7 while quarterbacking the Denver Broncos] has always come back in the fourth quarter and put out extraordinary finishes," he said. "We have a saying in Colorado, If anyone can do it, John Elway can do it.'" But even channeling Elway couldn't help Lodwick overcome a 2:15 handicap. Two of the top three jumpers, compatriots Samppa Lajunen and Jaako Tallus, skied to gold and silver medals in a double Finnish finish. And a tremendous ski leg catapulted Austrian Felix Gottwald from 11th place to the bronze. When Gottwald passed him in the second...
...money into its program, the U.S. is getting results. For 48 years, it won no medals on the Junior World Cup circuit. In the past seven years, it has pulled in five. This World Cup season, the U.S. was the only country to field two individual gold medal winners, Lodwick and Demong. So forget the catchphrase from Nike's much-maligned ad campaign launched after the Atlanta Games: "You don't win silver. You lose gold." Todd Lodwick, his teammates and coaches, are all winners at these Olympics...