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...race, never mind winning it, will often produce compelling sport. In the combined downhill in the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, Miller was a nanosecond from disaster when he made what might have been the greatest 60 m.p.h. recovery in the history of skiing to claim a silver medal. He either lands on the podium or on his posterior. (See pictures of Bode Miller on the slopes...
...winter hours skiing at nearby Cannon Mountain as he did in the classroom. In his teens, he was all but dismissed as being uncoachable. But, last year his World Cup triumph was the first by an American in 22 years. His prowess is such that he could win a medal in any of five Alpine skiing events at the Olympic Games in Torino, Italy, which begin Feb. 10. Most racers compete in two, at most...
...member of the National Academy of Sciences and the recipient of several awards in his lifetime, including the American Mathematical Society’s Leroy P. Steele Prize for Lifetime Achievement in 1990, the National Medal of Science in 1987, and the Wolf Foundation Prize in Mathematics...
...with over 2,000 athletes from 85 countries with millions upon millions watching on television in every corner of the globe and every nation on Earth. She will face the very best competition her sport has to offer as the Americans seek to reclaim the top spot on the medal stand from Canada. And above all, she will embody the essence of the Games: an amateur athlete cooperating and participating among her international peers, striving to fulfill the Olympic motto and ideal of “swifter, higher, stronger.”As we embark upon this New Year, there...
...Missing the nationals doesn't necessarily mean Kwan won't skate in Torino in pursuit of Olympic gold, the only medal to have eluded her. She is petitioning the USFSA for one of three spots on the ladies' team, and her fate will be decided on January 14, immediately after the ladies' event at nationals. Kwan said her doctor cleared her to begin jumping on January 13, barely enough time to prove she will be ready to compete in Torino. "I believe I will be 100% for the Olympics, and I feel that I have a shot...