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Peter Carter is the coach of the ski team, and in him are personified the many contradictions of the team: Leftist politics in the face of skiing's continued elitism, for instance. He is a good skier, having won the Latin American Championships in his day, and he continued to win many races in the East far past his day. At 26 most skiers would have retired years ago, but for some reason Carter hangs on in both spirit and performance. Team members often wonder what makes Carter go, why he does things the way that he does...
...Edward Kennedy was found to have bone cancer, a rare and sometimes fatal disease of children. As a result, Edward Jr., called Teddy, underwent amputation of his right leg in Georgetown University Hospital. The Senator's elder son, second of three children, was an ardent fledgling skier, sailor and football player. Loving sports is, of course, part of the Kennedy tradition. So, too, was his father's decision to participate in the wedding of his niece as scheduled, standing in for his dead brother to give the bride away the same morning that his son was operated...
...South American summer circuit usually draws many of the top skiers in the world and this year five of the skiers were classified as "zero skiers." A zero skier must have won at least two World Cup competitions, a feat which has been accomplished by less than ten skiers currently in world amateur competition...
...Bryn [Evensen] was very consistent--he wasn't right at the top, but he didn't crash much," Carter said. Evensen beat World Cup skier Roland Thoeni of Italy in the Kandahar of the Andes downhill race. Thoeni's cousin, Gustavo Thoeni, was the World Cup ski champion last year...
Both Steele, whom Carter feels has proven himself to be the best skier in the East at his best, and his flashy mentor qualified for a crack at world caliber competition Western Spring series which is a string of 8 races in 15 days roughly coinciding with spring break at such racers' nirvanas as Squaw Valley, Mammoth Mountain and Heavenly Valley...