Word: skier
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...Staff writer Stephanie M. Skier can be reached at skier@fas.harvard.edu...
...been for Austrian skier Stephan Eberharter, who must be heartily fed up with taking silver to Hermann Maier's golds. But Maier put himself out of action last summer, so maybe Eberharter's time has come. Again...
...Schlopy was U.S. champion. Beyond prodigious talent, he had a sharp strategic mind and great technique, rarities in a young skier. At 20, he nearly blew himself apart in a grotesque wreck during the world championships in Japan. The damage included a broken back and a punctured lung. Schlopy's health gradually returned, and he even made the '94 Olympic team, but his progress as a skier had stalled. "I came back, but I wasn't improving," he says. "I don't know if it was due to being unhappy with the team environment or a lack of maturity...
...Staff writer Stephanie M. Skier can be reached at skier@fas.harvard.edu...
...Andrew S. Holbrook and Stephanie M. Skier contributed to the reporting of this story...