Word: skier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...known to man. A sweet-tempered cross between fictional Ski Jumpers Spuds MacKenzie and Bob Uecker, Edwards finished dead last (but at least not dead) in the 70-meter jump. He scored with the media and the great unfit majority tuning in with his cheerfully loony answers. (His favorite skier? John Paul II.) After Edwards' promotional appearance at a nightclub, we-are-not-amused British Olympic officials stamped their little feetsies, cried foul, and the most ingenuous interview in town will be muzzled until the conclusion of the 90-meter jump...
Then the split times for the 14th skier began flashing. Pirmin Zurbriggen, Muller's teammate, rival and mirror image -- a cool, reserved fellow who skis with a risk taker's wild flair -- was .05 sec. ahead, then .23 sec. A big outdoor TV screen showed Zurbriggen so close to disaster on one free-falling left turn that his hand scraped the snow. Muller watched, motionless, as Zurbriggen flashed past the finish .51 sec. in the lead. He did not react as Pirmin, exulting, raised a ski and kissed it. Muller was just one of skiing's centurions. Zurbriggen was fortune...
...parlaying a shortened downhill, started below the regular downhill's two fierce initial bends, and two runs of an easier version of the slalom, a fast-turning dash through flagged gates. On the first slalom run Zurbriggen, an all-event virtuoso in whom there is a fine gate skier crying for practice time, tied for sixth behind several slalom slitherers. He led the combined on points. Then, needing only a safe second run to win, he charged too hard, hooked a gate and fell within sight of the finish...
...effect on my racing." Or the course. "It was an easy slope, not too hard for me. I was going so fast, and you never know on slalom." Soon the rare mistake was behind him, and he was talking of his admiration for the great Swedish skier Ingemar Stenmark, against whom he expects to race in the slalom and giant slalom this week. From Stenmark, he said, "I learned that when you want to make power, you must be quiet. Then you explode." But, he added ruefully, "you cannot go over your limit...
...skiers? Looking at so-so from the underside, as expected. Buried chin-deep in drifts of analysis. There was little need for brooding after the glorious Sarajevo Games, when Debbie Armstrong and Christin Cooper won their gold and silver in the giant slalom, Phil and Steve Mahre a gold and a silver in slalom, and Bill Johnson, to expert eyes more scamster than skier, pulled his lovely downhill win. Now in the small traveling circus of ski racing it was being said that young skiers in the U.S. were too regimented, ran too many drills and never learned to free...