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Weeks away from retirement, Austrian Michaela Dorfmeister capped a remarkable career with her first Olympic gold medal, in the Torino Games women's downhill at San Sicario Fraiteve on Wednesday...
...Dorfmeister won a silver medal in the Super Giant Slalom at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan, but got shut out in Salt Lake City in four events. She's won two world championships, a World Cup overall title, two World Cup discipline titles, and this year leads standings in both downhill and Super-G.Starting 23rd, Dorfmeister skied the tricky top aggressively and established a lead of 1.18 seconds. "Wow, that's what I wanted," Dorfmeister said, recalling her reaction. "I tried not to get caught in the wind because you lose time and it is very difficult to regain...
...Still, even Gretzky understands the potential downside of choosing to come to Torino in spite of the media storm."If we don't win the gold medal, I'll get blamed, but I've been blamed for losses before," Gretzky said. Just not necessarily for something so far afield from the game being played...
...combined. He threw himself out of the start house and quickly reached 126.48 kph-fastest on the day-at the first interval timing, slicing through the two tough turns in the upper part of the course. Nor did he make the mistake that had cost him a medal in the downhill, when he gave up too much speed in the lower section. Miller's time of 1:38.36 was .32 secs ahead of Didier Defago of France and more than two seconds on the favorite, Benny Raich of Austria...
...winning by a mile. Raich, perhaps the best skier in the world right now, would need a miracle to catch him. Or a race official's ruling. No problem, says Miller, "At least I don't have to go all the way down to Torino tomorrow" for the medal...