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Appreciatively. But for all his effort, for all the crowd enthusiasm for all the genius of the move, Moseley ended up fourth - and medal-less - in the competition. In mogul skiing, each of the two tricks, as the jumps are called, account for only 12.5% of the score. "You have to have more than one jump in a race to win," said Janne Lahtela of Finland...
Lahtela won the gold medal with two solid tricks and the fastest speed down the mogul course. Not that he's against flamboyance. "This is show business and you have to please the people," he says. "What Jonny is doing for the sport is good." But you also have to please the judges, the clocks and the calculators who put the scores together. And at that Lahtela proved he is the master...
...seat was French judge Marie-Reine Le Gougne. She told an International Skating Union panel that "a certain pressure" compelled her to vote for the Russians. The I.S.U. suspended Le Gougne and recommended that the Canadians be given a gold medal. I.O.C. chief Jacques Rogge praised the "decision of fairness and justice...
...couple of small errors. As he took in the joy of winning, Strobl said afterward, "I'm not out to beat anyone when I'm skiing. When I ski, I just want to ski well." Eberharter hid his disappointment well. "Everyone was expecting me to win the gold medal," he said, "but I always said life can go a different...
Only two shots from winning the 15-km individual race, Sweden's Magdalena Forsberg, 34, the most successful biathlete of her generation, could not stop her legs from shaking. It was partly nerves - she had never won an Olympic medal - and partly the shiveringly fast pace she was making around the track. She missed those last two shots and ended up with a bronze. "I'm very happy that I finally have an Olympic medal," said Forsberg, though she was clearly disappointed it wasn't a gold. Later in the week, she came in third again, this time...