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...Wilhelm Doppelganger has been ski-jumping all his life. The 27-year old Austrian, the son of a world champion speed skater and an Olympic gold-medal-winning luger, grew up in the ski-resort town of Blaadfrey. At age four he was sent to private school in the Alps and then to the Olympic Training Center in Vienna. By 15 he was traveling the Grand Prix World Circuit...
...said from the start, I’m an Olympics buff. I’m an American sports fans, and I’ll be watching (a little) and rooting. Especially for Harvard’s own Olympians, like speed skater Dan Weinstein or the various members of our women’s hockey team competing for the U.S. and Canada. Things should change, however, and change soon. Everybody knows the next Summer Olympics are being held in Athens, but do you know where the next Winter Games are? Rather, do you remember where the last Winter Games were held...
...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...
TIME: What's your magic ingredient? Friesinger: What for me is very important is that I have a nice training group. We are all friends. My brother Jan is in the group. There's also [German teammate] Marion Wohlrab, Cedric Kuentz - he's a French skater - and Yuri Kokhanetz from Russia. This is my training group. It's great. Our coach brought five people to the Olympics. Not everybody can say this. We've all had a very good season and everybody is happy. There's a very good mood on our team, and that's important...
DIED. JACK SHEA, 91, gold-medal-winning Olympic speed skater; of injuries from a car accident; in Saranac Lake, N.Y. Shea, who won two gold medals in 1932 but refused to skate in the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany, became the patriarch of the nation's first family of three generations of Olympians. His son competed in three skiing events in 1964, and a month ago, his grandson earned a spot on the U.S. Olympic skeleton team, in which sledders go headfirst down...