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Brundage might barely have tolerated Phil Mahre, 26, who probably makes no more than a six-figure living, legally laundered through the U.S. ski team. Neither money nor celebrity inordinately concerns him. As for gold medals, he says, "I don't know. It's every ski racer's goal. It would be exciting to win one. But I can live without it. To me, walking in the opening ceremonies is the essence of the Olympics. Winning the gold or making a lot of money is not the reason I am in the sport...
Sired by a Hall of Fame steeplechase jockey, McKinney was raised on a horse farm but bred to be a ski racer by her stage mother Frances, who rented a winter house near Squaw Valley, Calif. "I remember wearing baby skis," says Tamara, the youngest and the second most promising of Frances McKinney's seven children, five of whom reached the U.S. ski team. Sheila, 25, the family's particular star, made the team at the unlikely age of twelve. But in 1977 she fell in a downhill run and was unconscious for a month. After relearning...
...buying a stock that was headed south." But when Ford bounced back to the low 60s last year, Capital Guardian earned a $300 million windfall. Sometimes it takes as much nerve to "argue with the market," observes Kirby, as it does to climb behind the wheel of a racer...
...film sometimes wobbles in tone, and there is a certain strain involved in turning Donald and his criminal opponent into allies against rightist paramilitarists. But like all of Ritchie's best work (Downhill Racer, Semi-Tough), the film is full of shrewd throwaway behavioral observations. Sonny, for example, has a daughter (Kristen Vigard) who is a little compendium of spacy teen-age confusions; one minute she is watching porn tapes, the next she is trying to catch falling snowflakes on her tongue. Michael Leeson, who wrote scripts for the TV series Taxi, uses that show's mixture...
...American ski racer had ever won a World Cup until Phil Mahre won three. On consecutive snowy days last week, he beat Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark and everyone else to the bottom of Colorado cliffs in Aspen and Vail, ensuring his third straight championship. "Europeans aren't such great travelers," Mahre said compassionately. "They miss their mountains." Stenmark misses his World Cups. "I'm disappointed," said the former king of the hill, winner of three overall titles before Mahre. "I think I can never win the World Cup again." So Mahre's dominance is complete...