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...poor performance in skiing is one of the biggest mysteries?and greatest disappointments?in American sport. Lack of support was a valid reason in the early '60s, when the American team would fly to Europe on one-way tickets, ski the winter circuit, then scrounge airfare home. Now the U.S. Ski Team operates on an annual budget of $2.2 million (compared with $275,000 for the U.S. Speed Skating Team); American skiers have access to equipment and technicians as good as any n the world. Says Team Director Bill
PHIL MAHRE. His right ankle is held together by a metal plate and four screws, yet he still hustles down mountains at speeds faster than a parachutist in free fall. He is, quite simply, the best American man ever to put on skis in international competition. Since the launching in 1967 of the World Cup circuit?a four-month-long series of 15 meets?U.S. men have won only 15 races. Mahre, 22, has won eight of them, and his twin brother Steve has won one. Last year Phil was second in the overall World Cup standings when he went...
...same tenacity makes him one of the toughest skiers on the mountain. He started skiing at two in the deep snow of the Cascade Mountains, where his parents ran a ski resort at White Pass, Wash. A gifted athlete, he has made himself into a downhill racer, even though the slalom and giant slalom are his natural events. In an age of specialization, he has become a genuine contender in all events. Can he win a gold at Lake Placid? Says Mahre: "So many things can be a factor. The snow, the weather, is it warm so that waxing...
CINDY NELSON. She is 23 now, and it has been nearly a decade since she burst on the skiing scene. At 15, a native of Lutsen, Minn., she was the top U.S. woman downhiller, tuning up for the Sapporo Olympics with startling performances on the World Cup circuit. Then, less than a month before the Games opened, she took a dreadful fall on Switzerland's treacherous Grindelwald course and was laid up for months with a dislocated hip. She won the bronze in the '76 Olympics in the downhill. This is her last Olympics, and to win a gold...
...Ski Team has campaigned longer and harder than Cindy Nelson, and no one has experienced the disappointments of the American ski effort more keenly. During the early '70s, she recalls: "A skier was just told what to do, whether it was different from the training program that had been successful for you or not. Things are better today, or I wouldn't still be skiing. I think we can have great skiers hi this country now and really develop their potential to the fullest. Sometimes I look back and I wonder. If it had been like this when...