Word: skier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...World Cup downhill race. His teammates were jubilant, but no more so than the company that makes his ski boots. The day after Johnson's victory, executives at Swiss-owned Raichle Molitor U.S.A. began planning a new advertising campaign to celebrate the performance of the skier and his gear. The slick ads, picturing Johnson at full tilt, will soon appear in the pages of several ski-industry publications...
...alltime winter medal list, Americans stand third (36 gold, 44 silver, 29 bronze: 109) to Norway (50, 54, 45: 152) and the U.S.S.R. (59, 40, 41: 140). There is a rosy hope of adding 15 at Sarajevo, if that should be a huge concern. Cross-Country Skier Koch wishes the media would emulate the solitude of his sport or at least consider the Olympic ideal. "If 100 people enter a race," he says, "that means there have to be 99 losers. The worst thing that you can teach chil dren is that so many of them will be losers. Because...
...skier's closest relationship is with the mountain. "I love to be on the hill in the morning when it's still dark," Phil says, "to make three or four runs just waiting for the sun to come up." Because of a bleak December and dismal snow in Europe, the brothers came home early from the World Cup tour to Yakima for practice over Christmas. So far, their best finishes have been a third for Steve and a ninth for Phil, who says, "It's funny sometimes how quickly everything can just click in. When everything...
...McKinney hardly cuts the blocky figure of a woman skier. Actually, the entire women's team appears less robust than its regimen. At various boot camps from Hawaii to New Zealand, karate and pro football have been mixed into the exercises (Green Bay Packer Del Rodgers was a drill instructor). With the exception of three-time Olympian Cindy Nelson, a bronze-medal winner in 1976, they are extraordinarily fit. Nelson crashed a gate at Val d'Isere, France, last month and tore the ligaments in a knee. She returned to the U.S. immediately and has been working furiously...
America's premier minor-sports figure, Nordic Skier Bill Koch, 28, trains relentlessly for the first...