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...just two years ago won only a bronze medal at the Innsbruck Olympics. After that debacle, the team's annual budget was doubled, to $600,000, and its staff of coaches increased from half a dozen to 14. "With that kind of organizational and financial stability," says Alpine Ski Team Director Hank Tauber, "I can finally lay out ten-month racing and training programs and prepare younger racers as well." This year the American team trails only those of Austria and Switzerland in World Cup points, a heady jump from a seventh-place finish one year...
World Cup competition, ski racing's big league, is a 22-event road show that stretches from Stratton, Vt., to Vald'Isère, France; a traveling extravaganza complete with glamour and groupies, danger and drama. The life-style is a world away from what goes on back in Phil Mahre's home town of White Pass, nestled in the Cascade Mountains. Its total population is 27, and nine belong to the Mahre household, including Steve, Phil's twin, who is himself a promising member of the U.S. ski team...
What White Pass lacks in glitter it makes up in snow-the hamlet was created by a ski club-and Phil and Steve began skimming down the slopes at the age of seven. As they developed, they became their own best coaches. Then, at 16, Phil suffered a setback when a freak avalanche buried him to the waist and broke his right leg. One year later he fractured the leg a second time while clowning around on a children's slide. Within 18 months, however, Mahre had recovered sufficiently to place a respectable fifth in the giant slalom...
...Harvard men's and women's ski teams finished a tough season of competition against the superpowers of Division I last week, as both finished in the top ten at the eastern championships at Middlebury and Sunday River...
With most team members returning next year, both squads anticipate exciting seasons. "It's hard work, but it's worth it. But if we have to ski gates at Widener again next year, I hope they put a lift in," one alpine team member said, summing up the season...