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...Nagvajara grew up in Bangkok playing keyboards in a teenage rock band; he was 18 before he ever saw snow. By entering the Olympic Games, he has joined an elite club: he is one of 11 athletes who are the sole representatives of their countries at these Salt Lake City Games. From 20-year-old Shiva Keshavan, who carried the hopes of 1.1 billion Indians with him down the icy luge track (he came in a surprising 33rd out of 50), to slalom skier Gian Matteo Giordani, who will represent the tiny European enclave of San Marino today, none...
...told me, 'Please keep it up. Don't let these Olympics be the last one.'" Boit returned home to Kenya, named his first-born child D?hlie, and took the champion's advice to heart. Although a hiccup in sponsorship meant he only got four months training in before Salt Lake, he is now determined to train nonstop for the Turin 2006 games and make...
...Bakken and Flowers were able to stay comfortably in the shade even after all teams began training in Salt Lake as, through no fault of her own, Racine continued down the twisty tabloid course. Back home in Michigan, her father David was facing a charge of sexual child abuse, the allegation involving a 13-year-old friend of Jean's younger sister. Then Saturday, Gea Johnson busted a hamstring on a training run. This time, Racine made a strange decision: rather than putting athletic potential above friendship and replace Johnson with a healthy alternate, she would keep...
...What you are missing, though, is the security show. Salt Lake City is a $350 million U.S. Army theme park - the Disneyland of militarism with 16,000 cast members, an Eisenhowerian House of Horrors. Every block is a 12-year-old boy's dream. It may take an hour to get to the luge, but along the way, you can see National Guard maneuvers, talk to correctional officers from all over the country and see F-16s overhead. It's all the thrills of living in a Third World country without giving up one single chain restaurant...
...John Ashcroft had been expecting last Wednesday when he put the Olympics on extra-super-high alert. "We were already on a heightened level," he said. "But that was the day we put security in front of the rest rooms." He also told me that when Ashcroft came to Salt Lake a few weeks ago to check out the security, he spent an awful lot of time inspecting the skiing venues...