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FASTER, HIGHER, STRONGER There's no gold medal for online Olympic coverage, but we armchair athletes at TIME.com have done our best to prepare our users for the Winter Games. The results are online this week in our special preview section on the Salt Lake City Olympic Games. You will find profiles of some of the unique athletes you'll be watching on TV, a photo essay on the beautiful environs of Park City, Utah, and an extensive archive of TIME's past Olympic coverage. Plus, an online essay by Walter Kirn about the Mormon ideal vs. the Olympic ideal...
...find him. This season, though, Miller has been a fixture on the winners' stand of the World Cup tour, Europe's glamorous winter circuit. He has won four races outright, something an American hasn't done in almost two decades. At Salt Lake City he will be a medal contender in the slalom, giant slalom and combined (downhill and slalom) events, "the variety pack," as he calls...
...women's halfpipe, competitors will have to put together at least a 540 rotation, as well as one or more inverts, if they want a medal. Nagano bronze medalist Shannon Dunn-Downing, 29, has been pushing the envelope with 720s and upside-down maneuvers. But Kelly Clark, 18, is the future of women's snow-boarding. The height and energy of her tricks are unparalleled, and with a clean run she is nearly unbeatable...
Apolo Ohno is scheduled to be a star. He is the best short-track speed skater in the world, and he could win a gold medal in each of his sport's four Olympic events. At 19, he has the fresh-faced good looks of a boy-band member, a marketable name and a signature style--flowing hair beneath a red bandanna and a soul patch under his lower lip--that makes him instantly recognizable. Abandoned by his mother as an infant, reared in Seattle by an itinerant Japanese hair-stylist father, Ohno has also waged the personal struggle required...
There's only one problem: Ohno can be something of a knucklehead. He is a teenager, just a few years removed from a pattern of skipping school and interrupting training runs with pizza binges. In December a skater named Tommy O'Hare alleged that Ohno and fellow U.S. medal hopeful Rusty Smith, who had already qualified for the American team, tanked the 1,000-m short-track final at the Olympic trials so their friend Shani Davis could finish first and make the team instead of O'Hare. Despite some damning evidence, an arbitrator exonerated Ohno, but the mini-scandal...