Word: medal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...financial profit, the marketability of a brand name showing on a ski propped over an Olympic champion's heart is obvious. And an ice show hardly knows what to call a star if she has won nothing more than a silver medal. Fratianne, who performs for Walt Disney's Magic Kingdom on Ice, says, "It's kind of the difference between being rich and really rich. Maybe it cost me some money, but all I can say is, now I can live happily ever after...
...speed skaters did not expect a corporate sponsor, and they have none. One thing about speed skaters, though, when they tumble and go sliding into the wall, they always dust off their bottoms and finish the course. Mary Docter and Erik Hendriksen are America's best, but a medal for either will be cause to rejoice...
...necessity in Lexington, Ky., but the reigning women's overall World Cup champion, Tamara McKinney, is from there. For three years, Phil Mahre of Yakima, Wash., has been the men's overall World Cup king, and his twin, Steve, holds the World Championship gold medal in the giant slalom. Skiers have been spotted in the Cascades before, but none like the Mahres (pronounced mares), who are leading the most promising U.S. team in history to the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo...
...Lake Placid, N.Y., four years ago, Phil took a silver medal in the slalom, just the third Alpine medal collected by an American male in ten Games over 44 years; none has ever won a gold. In 1980 he finished behind the regal Swede Ingemar Stenmark, who also won the giant slalom. Slaloming is weaving through a course described by slender flagpoles. The giant slalom combines all this sideways whooshing with the third Alpine skiing discipline, downhill racing. While Phil also braves the downhill, he has basically followed the concentrated swerves of Stenmark, who has made slalom skiing more than...
...women's team appears less robust than its regimen. At various boot camps from Hawaii to New Zealand, karate and pro football have been mixed into the exercises (Green Bay Packer Del Rodgers was a drill instructor). With the exception of three-time Olympian Cindy Nelson, a bronze-medal winner in 1976, they are extraordinarily fit. Nelson crashed a gate at Val d'Isere, France, last month and tore the ligaments in a knee. She returned to the U.S. immediately and has been working furiously to recover...