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...Blink 182 blares over the loudspeakers while the boarders McTwist and where a chain-smoking, black-bandanna-wearing public-address announcer--American Dave Duncan--pumps the crowd when there's a "smokin' run." His black T shirt at the women's half-pipe read, SKATE AND DESTROY. Not exactly Olympian, but your kids are catching on: the National Sporting Goods Association estimates there are more recreational snowboarders (6.6 million) than skiers (5.9 million) in the U.S. Look for that number to jump after Teter's talk-show tour. Says U.S. snowboard coach Peter Foley: "These are the sports that modern...
...Games. Everywhere in the city and around the stadium, soldiers and police were visible and, until the disco music drowned them out, watchdog helicopters whirred overhead. As for the internal controversies of the Olympics, they were on parade even before the opening ceremony. Propecia sounds like an Olympian god and so it had its sacrificial victim. At 26, U.S. skeleton driver Zach Lund uses the drug to reduce his hair loss, but it's banned because it can mask the use of steroids. As a result, he has been banished from the games. Wayne Gretzky, head of Canada's hockey...
...internal controversies of the Olympics, they were on parade even before the opening ceremony. Propecia sounds like an Olympian god, and so it had its sacrificial victim. U.S. skeleton slider Zach Lund clearly needs the drug, used to reduce hair loss due to male-pattern baldness but shouldn't have used it. As a result, he has been banished from the Games because Propecia can mask the use of steroids. In another roil, Wayne Gretzky, head of Canada's hockey team, is being stalked by a scandal linking his wife Janet Jones and a close associate to a mess...
...Anne (Grandma Luge) Abernathy of the U.S. Virgin Islands, competing in her sixth Games--the oldest female Winter Olympian ever...
What would be the best way to characterize the rivalry between the women's ice hockey teams of the U.S. and Canada, the only squads to ever win a gold medal? Spirited, perhaps, or impassioned. Those would be Olympian ways of putting it-and largely incorrect. "We dislike each other very much on the ice," says former U.S.A. star Cammi Granato. "There's no game I'd rather lace up the skates for. It's always an intense battle. Off ice, there's sort of a mutual respect. On ice, you're out for blood...