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...Well, it's a new millennium, and no doubt feeling heat from the X-Games generation, the International Olympic Committee has indeed invited the world's best skeleton riders. With a third ya-gotta-be-nuts sliding sport (along with bobsled and luge) now on the schedule, the slate of what Americans consider the Peripherals-nonmarquee sports that zoom into the sporting Zeitgeist every fourth year only to melt away in the post-Games thaw-is at an all-time high. At Salt Lake we'll have all kinds of sleds, cross-country races (some with guns!), ski jumps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just This Side of Loony | 2/3/2002 | See Source »

...DeWitt says of lugers, who travel feetfirst, "Those guys are nuts." Not at all, says Gordy Sheer, who with doubles partner Chris Thorpe won America's first-ever luge medal in Nagano. Sheer is now the team's acting marketing director: "We don't have purple hair. We're not slamming six-packs of Mountain Dew and riding our BMX bikes to practice." Perhaps not, but lugers do reach 90 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just This Side of Loony | 2/3/2002 | See Source »

...about trading on that charm, the pair had been photographed for cereal-box covers and had lined up other endorsements worth about half a million dollars. Other Yanks had cute angles too. Driver Jill Bakken had her best friend, Shauna Rhobock, aboard, and driver Bonny Warner was a luge veteran trying to make her fourth Olympic team with big Gea Johnson, the heptathlete in question, behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Winter Olympics 2002: Letting Friendship Slide | 1/28/2002 | See Source »

...taken 54 years for skeleton sliders to convince the authorities that it's no more risky than slithering feet first on a luge, leaping into the wide blue from a 90-m hill, or any of the other sports included in the Winter Olympics. And in these Games, women will be competing for the first time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Head First Into History | 1/21/2002 | See Source »

...Nagano is best known for the 1998 Winter Olympics held in its capital, a postcard-pretty ski resort of 363,000. The entire prefecture bought into an Olympic pipe dream, convinced that building a luge run and hosting Lycra-clad skaters would somehow translate into a big pot of gold. A bullet-train line was built from Tokyo, hotels went up, airport runways were laid down. In all, nearly $1 billion was spent. But once the Olympic torch was extinguished, Nagano's post-Olympic boom failed to materialize. The city's downtown looks deserted and there's plenty of room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Grooviest Guv | 5/28/2001 | See Source »

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