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Just a week after being released from the hospital with a painful inflamed pancreas, Norwegian speed skater Johann Olav Koss won a gold medal in the 1500-m event...
...last June, when most other Olympic hopefuls were lashed into rigid training programs, Norwegian cross-country skier Vegard ("the Viking") Ulvang was hunkered down somewhere in central Greenland, pondering the vexing little problem of survival. He and his best friend, Frenchman Pierre Gay- % Peret, had set out seven days before to ski 355 miles across the world's largest island. Though the speediest previous crossing by their chosen route had been 25 days, they had brought enough food for just 20. "We wanted to go fast," explains Ulvang. But their pace during the first week had been crabbed...
...more informal and convivial than the Summer ones. At Les Saisies, a picturesque winterscape of red bridges in the snow, where the first women's biathlon in Olympic history was being held, snowballing was actually the favorite event, and children bobsledded without benefit of sleds. Scores of jolly Norwegians sang folk songs around an accordion and swayed in place, beating time with the poles of enormous Norwegian flags. But even here clocks were ticking everywhere, and as the athletes set off on lonely 25- minute journeys, instants were getting ready to be replayed in the pause and rewind sections...
...Companies such as Carnival and Royal Caribbean are driving the weak out of the business. Half a dozen lines sank in the past five years because of insufficient capital or poor marketing. Even successful lines had to discount heavily last year to fill ships. Lines with older ships, like Norwegian Cruise Line, are frantically updating to meet the changing demand. NCL's Norway, for instance, was renovated with a huge Roman spa and a first for cruise liners -- two hydrotherapy baths. Record revenues at Carnival are attracting the interest of hoteliers: in May, Radisson Hotels International will introduce the world...
...twenty-six-year-old son, Oswald Alving (Brent Blair), recently returned home from living in Paris, because "even an artist needs rest." Blair delivers a respectable, if not predictable, performance of a boy who attended French boarding schools as a child and spent his entire life away from his Norwegian home...