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...gold medals Aamodt wrote himself into the record books with seven Olympic medals, more than any other alpine skier. He was favored to win the combined - one downhill run and two slaloms - and then went on to snatch the super-G from Austrian favorite Stephan Eberharter by .10 sec. The two victories were not a bad result for the 30-year-old, who is often referred to as "the veteran" even though he is, as he points out, "two years younger than Stephan." He had started on his Olympic medal collection with a gold and a bronze in Albertville...
...take to the piste were far from her best. But come the Olympics she switched up a gear to the form that last year had won her eight consecutive slalom races. She had little time to train for the women's combined but won that by nearly 1.5 sec. Three days later she missed winning the super-G by a mere .05 sec. But she was happy enough with silver. "I was a little bit out of line," she said, "but it was fun." Two days' rest, and she went out to compete in the slalom over a difficult course...
...moment I thought another plane had crashed. My wife was watching TV in the next room, when suddenly I heard moaning and then, "Oh, no!" The phone rang not 10 sec. later--my mother-in-law. "Did you see it?" she said. Her voice was loud and agitated. She demanded to speak with her daughter. I was worried...
...welcome dollop of drama to the Salt Lake City scene. Indeed, a gang of Romanians in disguise sneaked off with a gold even before the official start of competition, stealing the watches of six timekeepers on the bus taking them to the first cheating event--in a record 32 sec. That event, the men's equipment-tampering relay, was won by North Korea's team in a dramatic upset over highly favored Iraq. The North Koreans had broken into the wrong locker room, lost their tools and failed to sabotage the blade of a single U.S. skater. Only a brilliant...
...small pitchers of margaritas at $115 each. "I'll look at the bill later," he said, as his two colleagues, geologists at an engineering company, raved about the "buttery taste" and "subtlety" of the oak barrel-aged liquor, enlivened only with fresh lime juice and a dash of Triple Sec. "It goes down easy," explained Jacob Henry, who recently got a $300 bottle of Herradura Seleccion Suprema for his 24th birthday...