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...there and, with an air of excited surprise, watched champion after champion fail to beat her score. Just seven months before, soon after the world championship, her father had died, and now, as her American rival Liz McIntyre said, "she wanted to have redemption." The first female Winter gold medalist in 2,658 years of Japanese history dissolved into tears...
...looked impressive. Among the Americans, however, it is Bobek who is vulnerable--but not just because Lipinski and Kwan are considered by most other skaters to be in a class of their own. "I think we'll win the gold and silver," says Rosalynn Sumners, the 1984 Olympic silver medalist. But, she adds, "I think a sweep will be tough." Why? "Politics...
There's increasing applause for Elvis' brand of skating and not just from the awestruck audience. "I think the men's competition should be judged an athletic event," says 1988 gold medalist Brian Boitano. "When you have so much athletic ability, you don't have time to be artistic, and I don't think you should be expected...
When Street won the silver at Lillehammer in 1994, the freckle-faced 22-year-old instantly vaulted beyond the celebrity of any run-of-the-hill medalist, thanks to her peek-a-boo catchy name, a superabundance of personality and a mountain-hippie upbringing. During the next two years, she matured into a dominant athlete as well. She not only became the first American to win a World Cup downhill title but did it two years in a row. Now she's rich too, from endorsement deals with the likes of Nike, United Airlines and Chap Stick. Her signature cross...
...THURSDAY Speed skaters Chris Witty of the U.S. and Catriona LeMay Doan of Canada will duel in the 1,000 m. Kristina Koznick, a young slalom skier, could be a surprise medalist...