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...that shuts out everything except snow and gates and the fall of the mountain. He seems unaware of his competition until it is time to accept congratulations or grin and say, in a way that always seems genuine, that it really isn't so bad to be beaten by Muller or by the one-man Luxembourg team, Marc Girardelli...
Pirmin, after his two World Cup downhill wins, looks good in the downhill, with Teammate Muller or Canada's Boyd as second choice. That leaves the GS, super-G and combined. Give Pirmin one gold and a silver and Girardelli, if he recovers from a bruising fall in late January, at least one medal. Give them all fat endorsements, glossy cars and TV contracts. Give the Larchenhof a try in 30 years; the tall fellow with the leather knickers, the pipe and the pointy nose, they say, still skis fairly well...
...that Witt's imposing coach, Jutta Muller, has dragged her husband Bringfried into Witt's service. He wrestles her bundles of fan mail that bulge with impassioned letters from both sides of the Berlin Wall, including the marriage proposals of "U.S. boys," from locations, Witt says, "you'd never think cared about figure skating." Considering her appearance, this is a possibility. "If she were an American," the U.S.'s Fleming once said, "her face would be everywhere. I mean, look...
...back. "I've been skating for 16 years; it's been my whole life from morning to evening. I think for the first time it will be hard for me." A self-described flirt, one who professes to be "naturally lazy," Witt nonetheless will miss the metronome discipline of Muller. "When you do something special," Witt says, "you become someone special too." But: "Skating gets harder as you get older because you have a name to lose...
MANAGING EDITOR: Henry Muller...