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...TIME.COM POP QUIZ: Who was the last American athlete to win gold in a Winter Olympic Alpine ski event? Phil Mahre Bode Miller Tommy Moe Picabo Street FOR THE ANSWER Go to time.com/olympicquiz, where you can test your knowledge about the history of the Winter Olympic Games...
...Justin Timberlake is still more than a week away. Tuesday's paparazzi-style performance was for Picabo Street, the American skier who took 16th place in the women?s downhill skiing event...
...Julie Webster, 13, of nearby Morgan, Utah, shadowed her hero for at least an hour in search of an autograph. "Please, Picabo, please, I love you," she called out in a high-pitched voice. "Please, Picabo, will you sign this for me?" Asked why she was risking trouble from her parents by sticking around so long after the event was over, Julie said: "She's so brave, and she's just so cool. She does things I don't think anyone else would do. She goes down these enormous steep hills...
...last time we were transfixed together, it was in horror. In the next two weeks, some image will grab us once again, if much more gently. Will Sasha Cohen be the first woman to land a quad in competition? Will Apolo Anton Ohno sweep all his races? Will Picabo Street withstand one last downhill dash? A few months ago, how much would we have cared? It is a pleasure now to pull up a chair and give these athletes our full attention, to savor their fervor and cheer them...
...technical" events--slalom and giant slalom--Kristina Koznick, the prodigal child of the women's team, is returning home in great form. And Picabo Street has once again been surgically reassembled to contest the downhill. One more sensational crash, though, and she will have to be sold for parts...