Word: nagano
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...This was a very important win for me, especially after in Nagano," said Tomba, who failed in Japan to add to his collection of five Olympic medals. "For me, today's victory is more than a gold medal. It is a platinum...
AMERICAN MEN A Dream Team of hockey pros produced a nightmare in Nagano. Lucky they got to play Belarus...
America's gold-silver knockout, its first since the 1956 one-two scored by Tenley Albright and Carol Heiss, proved only that champions are formed in the most variable of circumstances. Lipinski and Kwan stuck to completely different schedules at Nagano, setting off rampant speculation about whose off-ice routine would triumph. Journalists handicapped the event in favor of Lipinski because she was so carefree and relaxed. She was all over the Olympic village, taking to dorm life faster than a pre-frosh. She celebrated Picabo Street's super-G win ("Isn't it neat!"), updated her Website at Surf...
...medals were awarded for staging an Olympics, Nagano would doubtless receive a silver, the color of its snowfall; almost everything Japanese was delicate and accommodating except the weather, which turned skiers on their heads when it wasn't doing the same to schedules. In the end, however, true grit prevailed: the fastest man on skis, Hermann Maier ("Other Name: Das Monster," his official bio explains), confirmed his extraterrestrial status by getting up from a horrific crash and picking up two golds in four days; his female counterpart, Katja Seizinger, returned to form by winning two golds in two days. Even...
Sometimes the Nagano Games could seem less dynamic than aerodynamic as competitors muttered about clap skates and luge "booties" and strips on speed skaters' uniforms that helped them fly. But all the machinery in the world couldn't erase the piercing human moments: Harada, with his back against the temporary wall of a cafeteria, after his failure to win gold in the normal hill jump, a copy of the results sheet in a glove that said JAPAN; or Cammi Granato, the captain of the U.S. women's hockey team, after a black-lacquer disk with gold dust was hung around...