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Being at the Winter Olympic Games is like being at Disneyland. For the past 16 days, we have existed in an Enron-free world of snow and smiles. We have worried about medal tallies instead of death tolls, snowfall rather than falling stock prices. And now, as these Salt Lake City Games draw to a close, we find ourselves looking forward to the next Games...
...statistics are remarkable. At Salt Lake City the U.S. (pop. 284 million) had its most successful Games ever, pulling in more than 30 medals. Europe's second-most populous country, Germany (pop. 83 million) topped the table with a record medal haul. Norway (pop. 4.5 million) quietly skied off with more than 20 medals, half of them gold...
Until Bjorndalen's record-breaking feats, the Norwegian team's star performer in Salt Lake City had been alpine skier Kjetil Andre Aamodt. By taking two gold medals Aamodt wrote himself into the record books with seven Olympic medals, more than any other alpine skier. He was favored to win the combined - one downhill run and two slaloms - and then went on to snatch the super-G from Austrian favorite Stephan Eberharter by .10 sec. The two victories were not a bad result for the 30-year-old, who is often referred to as "the veteran" even though...
...Zagreb when it was part of Yugoslavia. Their dad drove them to the hill when he could. They became champions, but Janica's career was constantly interrupted by injury; she's had three knee surgeries in the past few years. She came in here hoping for perhaps one medal, any shade. She left with four, three of them gold. No skier had ever won so many and no woman had ever finished first that often (only Jean Claude Killy in 1968 and Tony Sailer in 1956 had been triple-gold among men). Kostelic alone made Croatia look like a pretty...
...Flowers' was only one of many feel-good stories in Salt Lake City. Chris Klug, liver transplant recipient, won a bronze medal in giant slalom snowboarding. Bode Miller, with his ferocious final runs in event after event, established himself as the most exciting comeback kid in skiing history. Parra, separated for much of the last year from his wife, who was back home in Miami giving birth to their first-born while he was training with the team in Utah, said he hoped his dedication would inspire kids of Latin heritage. Cuban American speed skater Jen Rodriguez...