Word: racers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were the Austrians that Franz Klammer did not even make the team. In 1976, Klammer's run in Innsbruck had instantly become a classic of sport-a headlong, fanatical plunge of almost mystical recklessness and desire. But the following year, Klammer's younger brother Klaus, also a racer, fell so badly that he will probably be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. After that, some critical edge of aggressiveness departed from Franz Klammer's racing style, and he was unable to make the Austrian team for the 1980 Olympics...
Lean and vigorous, Fahrner has taken a mountainside and turned it into a ski racer's snow sculpture. With swarming Caterpillars and snow packers, he has added bumps and rolling terrain to the course, piling up snow here, scraping some away there, molding an ideal racing network. "The skiers will see some things that are quite different than when we had the World Cup races here last year," he says. "The courses are much tougher, much more technical and difficult...
...same tenacity makes him one of the toughest skiers on the mountain. He started skiing at two in the deep snow of the Cascade Mountains, where his parents ran a ski resort at White Pass, Wash. A gifted athlete, he has made himself into a downhill racer, even though the slalom and giant slalom are his natural events. In an age of specialization, he has become a genuine contender in all events. Can he win a gold at Lake Placid? Says Mahre: "So many things can be a factor. The snow, the weather, is it warm so that waxing...
...Paris. The bon vivant son of Joseph Dubonnet, founder of the liqueur-making firm, André was an archetype of the moneyed adventurer, equally absorbed with beautiful women (he married four) and the high-speed excitement he sought as a World War I aviator, 1924 Olympic bobsledder and car racer. Besides driving for Hispano-Suiza and Bugatti in the 1920s, he funneled his fortune into various innovations, including a novel suspension system he sold to General Motors. In the 1960s, after the Dubonnet company merged with Italy's Cinzano, André left to continue his tinkering, this time with...
Frequently students tell him that the program has changed them deeply. Paul McDowell, who raced small sailboats before his Westward voyage, says the semester has changed his view of the oceans: "As a racer, I've always tried to get from one place to another across the sea as fast as I could. But aboard Westward we've learned how to work with the sea. I have learned about what lives in the sea, how we affect the sea. Sailing isn't just competitive now." Explains Chief Scientist Donald Drost, 36: "We're all interested...