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...easy living in Boston when you are a skier, and the lack of snow this winter did not make things much easier. But that did not stop the Harvard nordic and alpine ski teams from showing vast improvement over previous seasons, while having a lot of fun doing...
...Kellin was our best skier," Bellizzi said. "She had some really good finishes. Andrew skied very well, especially since he had not raced before last year...
There were curlers here and a Kenyan skier there, female hockey players and an Indian luger. Now and then, perhaps, a few niceties got lost in translation ("Oh, we beseech you. Heave-ho, heave-ho," was one of the first lines to greet spectators on the scoreboard), but for the most part the ceremonies so conformed to the textbook that even their "image director" was a man whose first name is Man. Elegiacally minded Japanese may have been calling these the last Games of the 20th century, but the efflorescence of young faces suggested they are really the first...
...Nagano will feature a kickboxing figure skater called Elvis and an American skier called Picabo with her own line of "Air Max Electrify" shoes, but they are nothing new here--nor is the Italian skier who may become the daughter-in-law of Luciano ("United Colors of") Benetton. The poster girl of Nagano will almost certainly be a teenage figure skater not noted for her nose rings. Mike Moran, an assistant executive director of the U.S. Olympic Committee, recalls that a renegade stance is as old as skiers Billy Kidd and Spider Sabich: "Those guys had every...
...SATURDAY The great Alberto Tomba has won three Olympic golds. No Alpine skier has ever won four, and this is La Bomba's last chance at glory in his best discipline, slalom...