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...fraction of a second-as emergencies dictate. Proell disdains such caution and her total abandon has already won her two World Cups. She is assured of a third before the spring thaw. This season she won all eight women's downhill races, becoming the world's first skier-male or female-to score a sweep in one of the three Alpine events.* In late December, she cracked Jean-Claude Killy's record of 18 World Cup race victories: as of last week, she had won 28, making her, at age 19, the winningest cup skier...
...failure to win in the 1972 Winter Olympics at Sapporo. The Austrians went into that competition confident of success, and Annemie was expected to pick off a gold medal or two with little trouble. The team's morale was destroyed, however, the controversial disqualification of Star Skier Karl Schranz (TIME, Feb. 14, 1972), and Annemarie had to settle for a pair of silver medals. After that setback, she thought of giving up skiing, but the mood lasted only a short time. Then she threw herself into her harsh training regime, modeled after that of a prizefighter-long-distance runs...
Although Steele's finish was good in a highly talented field of 75 which included U.S. Olympian Bobby Cochran, the number one slalom skier for the Norwegian national team, Christensen, and members of the United States National Talen Squad, the Harvard junior had to remain disappointed with his performance in his best event...
Harvard's Ben Steele and Bobby Cochran of the University of Vermont, who trailed Magowan, rushed to the aid of the fallen skier. After attempts to revive him failed, Magowan was hurried to the hospital...
...University of Montana skier said yesterday Magowan "probably was't used to skiing on ice. In Nevada, there's no ice, just powder," he said. An investigation of the accident continues today...