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...combine the shooting aspect of the event with the "aerials" competition that already exists. The skier approaches the jump sporting an automatic rifle...
...this new version, as the skier rights himself for the landing, he grabs the gun and must shoot a moving target that is released from the ground...
Like other Olympic sports, the event will be judged on a 6.0 scale, with a simple rule: if the skier accidentally shoots a spectator, he or she would automatically receive a two-point reduction...
...Skier Ulrike Maier, seeking a few extra points for her World Cup standing in a routine downhill race in the final season of a career that had already brought two world championships, broke her neck last month and died. Conditions were unquestionably risky. The timer pole that she hit was controversially sited. And Maier, a consummate pro, knew the dangers. But the slope was familiar, and 67 other competitors that day survived uneventfully. Her death emphasized for athletes and audiences alike the inherent risk in the Olympic goal of pushing "faster, higher, stronger" to the limit. It also underscored...
...hosts were not exempt from family travail, not even cross-country skier Vegard Ulvang, whose love of risk and three 1992 gold medals make him Norway's best-loved sportsman and its choice to take the Olympic athlete's oath. An American reporter reduced him to tears at a press conference by asking about the impact on his training of his brother Ketil's disappearance while jogging last October and of Vegard's fruitless search for the body, lost in snow at least until the spring thaw...