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...eyes are on Anni Friesinger - and not just because of her habit of posing for risque photos. The German speed skater rides an unmatched winning streak into Salt Lake City, having lost only one middle- and long-distance race all season. At the Games, she plans to skate in four events - the 1,000, 1,500, 3,000 and 5,000 m - and is a heavy favorite at 1,500 and 3,000. Friesinger spoke with TIME?s Jeff Chu from her pre-Olympic training base in Calgary, Canada. Excerpts...
...people. President Clinton responded with a directive placing the Secret Service in charge of security for all major public gatherings, including the Olympics; the directive also tasked the FBI with crisis management--anything from hostage rescues on down--and the Federal Emergency Management Agency with coordinating disaster response. Salt Lake City is the first test of Clinton's plan...
...effort thus far has yielded an almost heartwarming level of cooperation among security agencies known for being fiercely territorial. The Secret Service may be calling the shots, but more than 60 federal, state and local organizations are working together in Salt Lake City, and ad hoc multi-agency task forces with heavy-duty acronyms--the Utah Olympic Public Safety Command (UOPSC), the Olympic Joint Terrorism Task Force (OJTTF)--are thick on the ground. More than 15,000 federal, state and local personnel will watch over the Games, among them 1,900 members of Utah's National Guard--the largest single...
...least the spectators are giving Salt Lake City an unqualified vote of confidence. After an initial dip following Sept. 11, daily ticket sales have risen to an average of $200,000 a day in January; sales have already smashed the record set in Nagano. If Team USA gets the job done here, these Games will become the blue-print for securing high-profile events in a post-World Trade Center world. "This has become a training ground for national security," Utah's Republican Senator Orrin Hatch says proudly. "They're writing the rules here." Let's hope they work. Unlike...
...Though she may be laid back, her fellow countrymen are not. Japan desperately craves Olympic champions. The state of its winter team is so shaky that the slacker sport of snowboarding offers the country one of its best shots at a medal in Salt Lake City. It's quite a comedown from four years ago, in Nagano, where the host team ski jumped and skated its way to five gold medals. This time, it's up to Miyake and Michiyo Hashimoto, 29, who recently finished first and second in a World Cup event. Hashimoto, an Osaka native, is also...