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Beating Forsberg in the 15 km was Andrea Henkel, 24, part of a strong German team in Salt Lake City that has been bedeviling Sweden and Norway, the other traditional powers in cross-country and biathlon. A four-time junior champion, Henkel was surprised at her success. When her sister, Olympic cross-country skier Manuela Henkel, congratulated Andrea at the finish line, she didn't know she was in first place. She broke down in tears. "So you see," says Henkel, "I'm not always cool, calm and collected...
...Number of athletes from the U.S. alone competing in Salt Lake City...
...problem is how the legislation was sold. "Now we shall realize the reunification of the Hungarian nation across borders," said right-wing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban when he introduced the measure last year. This month he declared that the law will succeed despite those "who want to sprinkle salt on the wound torn open 80 years ago." Slovakia, not surprisingly, bridled at such talk. Earlier this month, its parliament overwhelmingly approved a motion protesting the law's implementation...
...very much in the minds of the French ski team, still recovering from the tragic death in a training accident last October of super-G world champion Régine Cavagnoud. Carole Montillet, a close friend of Cavagnoud's, said that it had been very difficult to come to Salt Lake City without their outstanding skier. "As a team," she said, "we wanted to dedicate this Olympics to Régine." And she did it in the best way possible, by taking the downhill gold...
Beating Forsberg in the 15 km was Andrea Henkel, 24, part of a strong German team in Salt Lake City that has been bedeviling Sweden and Norway, the other traditional powers in cross-country and biathlon. A four-time junior champion, Henkel was surprised at her success. When her sister, Olympic cross-country skier Manuela Henkel, congratulated Andrea at the finish line, she didn't know she was in first place. She broke down in tears. "So you see," says Henkel, "I'm not always cool, calm and collected...