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...most lonesome event - the marathon - is run amid the constant roar of crowds cheering every step of the race. The Winter Games has its own supply of electricity, but it's more a gathering hush as athletes contend with their frozen surroundings. You hear it in the cross-country skier's gasping solitary climb up a snowy hillside or in the sharp swoosh of a perilous slide down a bobsled track. Sometimes there's no sound but the wind as the ski jumper silently soars above the trees. Even inside the arenas, spectators will hold their breaths as a figure...
...fantastic opportunity to give Torino an international showcase," says Grissiotto. And even sophisticated Italians may decide to join the party if native athletes start to pick up gold. After winning five World Cup races so far this season, slalom specialist Giorgio Rocca could fill the giant boots of legendary skier Alberto Tomba. Carolina Kostner gives Italy its first real shot at women's figure-skating glory in years. And a strong contingent of cross-country skiers and lugers could stand on the podium. Yet organizers admit the real newsmakers are likely to be foreign athletes. The U.S. ski team, headed...
...tabloids busy with his evening exploits. "If any of the sponsors didn't know what they were in for, that this is a part of the package, shame on them," says a Nike rep. According to Miller's agent, Miller just inked the biggest deal ever for a skier, with equipment maker Atomic. He also endorses Barilla pasta, among other products, the income from which provided enough money for him to buy a 600-acre farm in New Hampshire. To the Swoosh folks, who love edgy marketing and freethinking athletes, a jock with a party rep doesn't amount...
Miller's prowess as a skier and his reputation as a hard nut were already known in the area when he was offered a spot in Carrabassett Valley Academy, a prep school in Maine for ski racers. But coaches there couldn't tame him. They kept trying to alter his so-called back-seat style, and he resisted fiercely. If you want to ski on your ass, they finally told him, become a snowboarder. In his book, Bode: Go Fast, Be Good, Have Fun, he claims that another local coach even sabotaged his chance for the junior Olympic team. Then...
...Slopes Bode Miller, the skier with the unorthodox style, is one of the few racers with the stamina and versatility to compete in all five Alpine events in Torino. In addition to the four shown here, Miller will ski the combined event, which is a shorter downhill run followed by two slalom runs DOWNHILL Vertical drop: 2,625 ft. (800 m) It?s the longest course of the Alpine events and one of the most dangerous competitions at the Winter Games, with speeds of more than 80 m.p.h. (130 km/h). Skiers take one run down a single course marked...