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When a sport is transformed overnight by the arrival of new technology--graphite tennis racquets, fiber-glass vaulting poles, high-backed ski boots--the change makes everyone queasy. But performance trumps sentiment. The sport of speed skating is at one of those pivotal junctures, with good old tradition being upended...
Michael Kennedy was an expert skier, and his death was not the result of reckless behavior [NATION, Jan. 12]. I was one of several fathers participating in the ski football game the day of the accident. I would certainly not have played with my 11-year-old son if there...
On New Year's Eve, the family had gathered at the Sundeck restaurant on top of the mountain in Aspen, fame's playground, waiting for the slopes to clear at the end of the day so they could have the hill to themselves to continue the annual family downhill football...
Half a world away, on the Indonesian island of Java, hundreds of rural families have mounted small, silvery panels on poles near their homes. Made of silicon semiconductor chips similar to the microprocessors found in computers, the solar cells convert the energy of sunshine into electricity. These almost magical devices...
Located in Hakuba, 30 miles from Nagano, the ski-jumping venue expects crowds of 36,000 to cheer for a home team that has serious hopes of gold. A curtain hung on the poles at left will protect jumpers from tricky winds.