Word: racer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wind-lashed Mount Allan itself upstaged the world's best skiers during the men's super-G. Flat light blurred visibility, and the man-made snow had been licked to unpredictable slickness by overnight freezing. Five of the first 15 racers fell or wobbled off course. Zurbriggen skied so cautiously that he was out of contention. The only racer who looked comfortable was France's Franck Piccard, who had never won a World Cup race although he had looked good earlier in the Games, taking a bronze in the downhill. His expression as the other racers failed seemed...
...until the bad breaks began to overwhelm the bad sports did a few graceful U.S. instincts take hold. Downhill Racer Pam Fletcher, 25, missed her precious chance, when she crashed the day before the event into a skiing maintenance worker ("like hitting a tree") and broke her leg. After a brief cry, Fletcher was smiling again. "You can't have everything, you know," she said. "Where would you put it?" No American man or woman had ever finished as high as sixth in an Olympic luge, and when Bonny Warner moved up from the eighth position on her final...
When the Winter Olympics open in Calgary this week, TIME's own team will be on hand, reporting at the speed of a downhill racer, snapping pictures with the derring-do of a bobsledder and enduring late deadlines with the stamina of a cross-country skier. Our coach is Senior Editor Jose M. Ferrer III, who will be supervising his third set of Olympics competitions from New York City. Ferrer demonstrated his gold-medal mettle as Sport editor during the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo and the Summer Games in Los Angeles. Now, as then, his aim is to present...
Zurbriggen's cool psyche has a large, invisible eggshell around it. Everything he needs is inside. His ties are very strong to his parents and the small 30-bed sport hotel, called the Larchenhof, that his father Alois built and now runs. A ski racer himself, Alois quit when a younger brother died after a ski fall, but it was he who first encouraged Pirmin to race. Pirmin's girlfriend Moni Julen, a pretty, dark-haired ski instructor from Zermatt, is a cousin of his friend Max and is accepted as part of this tight, protective mountain clan, which includes...
Rather, La Vigne said, Gault was placed on thealternate team because that was the only one thecoach could put a racer on at the last minute. Hesaid that Gault could be promoted to a top sled,however, after being made a member of the team...