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...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 the time went...
That same day, 38 miles away, in La Plagne, the Canadian luger Harington Telford was saying the same thing. "The past four years have been a struggle to get here," he said, noting how his 19th-place finish in Calgary had become an 18th-place finish here. "I am 25 years old now, and I've really managed to make zero progress in the past four years." A few feet away, Robert Pipkins, a 19-year-old American in the first flush of Olympic enthusiasm, his beaming parents waving a GO ROB. SLIDE IN PRIDE banner around him, looked over...
...sites as Courchevel and Val d'Isere. Any time not spent in a bus in the days before the Games seemed to be spent in a line for a bus. And on the epic rides along treacherous, icy roads, the passenger could be forgiven for thinking himself a born luger and wondering which new Olympic events he could enter: free-style cursing, perhaps, or uphill climbing, or cheap skating (since a pair of tacos at the top of the mountains would set him back $16). When striking taxi drivers blocked the area's only highway for 10 hours...
Several members of Congress also pop up in the guessing game. Wyoming Congressman Dick Cheney is a low-key conservative who has experience as an adviser to Richard Nixon and chief of staff for Gerald Ford. The two Indiana Senators, Richard Luger and Dan Quayle, have been strong conservative leaders, and either could help in the Midwest battleground...
...Village entrance, where eight bronze figures (women and men) strain to support the archway, athletes milling in and out of the sunshine wore similar expressions. "We've been babied so much," sighed Ruben Gonzalez, the Argentine luger from Texas, "it's going to be hard to go back to the real world." Swiss Bobsledder Andre Kiser said, "The Canadian people have been so warm. Maybe that's why there's no snow...