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...taking the crisp morning air in St. Moritz, high in the Swiss Alps, preparing for another day of arduous sportswriting labor--the World Bobsleigh Championships, I believe. Let's see: start with a hot chocolate, a brisk ski across the lake, maybe lunch at the Palace and then...
Janica was first in the family to win World Cup races. As a 17-year-old in 1999 she won her first two, but missed the rest of the season when she tore four ligaments in her right knee in downhill training at St. Moritz. The extra work required to get fit again, including long-distance running, cycling, gymnastics and even free diving, made her stronger and she came back to win eight consecutive World Cup slalom races of the 2000-01 season, as well as a slew of giant slalom and super-Gs. Her dominance in slaloms prompted Sweden...
...taking the crisp morning air in St. Moritz, high in the Swiss Alps, preparing for another day of arduous sportswriting labor-the World Bobsleigh Championships, I believe. Let's see: start with a hot chocolate, a brisk ski across the lake, maybe lunch at the Palace and then...
...Take skeleton. It was a Mr. Cornish who decided to take the St. Moritz track headfirst during the 1887 tobogganing Grand National. So not only is skeleton not new, it is downright hallowed and has been in the Olympics before, most recently...
...Ernst-Moritz Lipp, managing partner of Odewald & Compagnie, a German private-equity manager, all this talk about WWGD (What will Greenspan do?) was of little immediate consequence. "None of that discussion really plays a role here in Europe," he said, "which shows that Europe has really decoupled from the U.S." Lipp predicted that 2001 will be the year "Europe replaces the U.S. as the engine of growth." He forecast the European economy would grow at a healthy 3.5% annual rate, or just about last year's level...