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Mogul skiing, in which Donna Weinbrecht of New Jersey earned the women's gold medal last week, is dramatic. It involves slaloming among scores of boneshaking bumps down a straight 820-ft. course while completing two jumps, striving for both style and speed. Its curse, like that of so many Winter Olympics sports old and new, is that it involves subjective judging. That inevitably means at least a suspicion of politics -- of favoring the stalwarts, whatever their performance on the day, over outsiders who may rise to one particular occasion...
Canada's best chance for a gold medal since 1952 is said to rest on the broad shoulders of 18-year-old Eric Lindros, whose entry into the N.H.L. has been complicated by his unwillingness to play for the sleepy Quebec Nordiques. But an equally important key to Canadian success is ace goalie Sean Burke, who took a sabbatical from the league after four years with the New Jersey Devils. As for the Finns, who will also be in the medal round this week, seven of them are current or former players in the N.H.L., and several more have been...
...winding down his career in dignified exile a long way from his native Niagara Falls, demonstrated the fine points of public relations. "I waited eight long years to play in the Olympics," he said. "This has been a great character builder." Character was not the principal goal of the medal hopefuls as the final, single elimination round began this week. Each face-off won and goal scored brought them one step closer to gold...
Coming into the men's competition, the odds-on favorite was Canada's Kurt Browning, a level-headed and energetic three-time world champion. But a disastrous tumble early in his short program effectively took Browning out of gold-medal contention, throwing the field open to a crop of skaters who have been perennial best men but never the bridegroom. The suspense was compounded by a rash of injuries that threatened to derail not only Browning's medal hopes but also those of his two main rivals, Victor Petrenko of the former Soviet Union and Todd Eldredge...
...pairs' events, spectators could hardly tell whether they were witnessing the birth or the death of a golden era of skating among the former Soviets. For Petrenko, a Ukrainian, the accomplishment carried a special distinction, since the Soviet Union had never achieved an Olympic gold medal in the men's or women's competition...