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...Utah Olympic Park (435-658-4200), where all the sliding sports and Nordic jumping took place, you can hop into a bobsled with a driver and hit the curves at 80 m.p.h. and 4 Gs (the equivalent of a 40-story drop in less than a minute). "I could feel my contact lenses slipping down my eyes," says track-maintenance-crew member Alan Powell of his first bobsled ride. Or join up for a program at the park's ski jumps, among the highest-altitude ramps in the world. In the summer, ice is traded for wheels on bobsleds...
...bribe destined for Iranian officials. Three top executives of Statoil - chairman Leif Terje Loeddesoel, CEO Olav Fjell (inset above) and executive vice president Richard J. Hubbard - have resigned under pressure because of the growing scandal. "I can see now that I operated on the ethical borderline," Fjell said with Nordic understatement at a news conference. Statoil said it would continue its international operations...
...hanging out at Omuniuum, a tiny record shop they own that also serves as a practice studio. They are passing around a bottle of Singa Jengke, or "crouching lion," a barely refined vodka produced in the industrial heartland of Tangerang. The music booming in the shop is heavy, probably Nordic, and a bootlegged DVD is showing the latest video from the German band Lucyfire. "We're thinking of going for the cowboy look like these guys, at our next show," jokes Otong, Koil's lead singer. "Our fans would probably freak...
Captains Ryan Myers (Alpine), Anna McLoon and Ross Feller (Nordic...
Highlights Junior Nordic captain Anna McLoon wins the 10K Classic at the UVM Winter Carnival. McLoon qualifies for her third consecutive NCAA Championships...