Word: lugelis
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...moment. Look away from the slope for an instant, touch the side of the run for a second, and 10,000 hours of practice are gone. The athletes carry alarm clocks -- or time bombs -- in their heads and measure their lives in heartbeats (193 a minute for a biathlete). "Luge is all feeling," explained Duncan Kennedy, an American luger who won by placing 10th (higher, at the time, than any U.S. luger in history). "You can have a 'great run,' but if you're not feeling the track, you end up a second behind, and you don't know where...
...site reporting team, while Golon will sift through 7,000 photos daily to send the best back to designer Jane Frey. Just before departure, most of our team gathered in New York City's Central Park for a last-minute workout. "It's not exactly top-level luge, but my only other winter activity -- snowball fights -- is not yet recognized as an Olympic sport," laughs Ferrer...
...people might have urged him to dedicate his talents to basketball or football. But at 14, Robert Pipkins was already enamored of gymnastics and swimming. That was uncommon enough for a New York City youth, but after his mother brought home a flyer about tryouts for the junior national luge team, Pipkins decided to travel to Lake Placid and give it a try. He immediately loved the luge for the "exciting and risky" way the tiny sled carries one man at high speed. In January, after only three months of top-level training, Pipkins, 18, became a member...
...faultfinding. With six medals, America is well below the high-snow mark of twelve at both the 1932 and 1980 Lake Placid Games, but not far off the average haul of eight. Evidently, the quadrennial depression from national winter shortcomings is no more memorable than the average American luge run. Still, George vowed to slay the dragon of Olympic mediocrity: "We should go after ((excellence)) and spare no expense." So with baseball an exhibition sport this summer in Seoul, would Owner Steinbrenner donate an ace Yankee hurler during the pennant stretch for the sake of national glory? Sure...
Athletic glamour and grandeur are often in the eye of local beholders. To U.S. viewers, no amount of informative programming will make the luge, bobsled and . Nordic combined more than curiosity-shop events -- a job only American medals would do. But fans in other countries had cause to rejoice in some non-prime- time, though historic, performances. East German Frank-Peter Roetsch was the first ever to capture both the 10-km and 20-km biathlons, a daunting standard for future ski shooters. Even more notably, Soviet Cross-Country Skier Raisa Smetanina tied for the most decorated competitor...