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...main problem with group ski lessons is that you never know how good a skier you'll be before you try it. You may humiliate yourself, without having any reason to expect that you will. Given the stochastic element inherent in skiing, you risk failing miserably in full public view...
...world class skier for the U.S. Disabled Ski Team since 1982, Dunne, who is blind, has amassed a remarkable list of accomplishments in her eight years of competition. When, at age 11, most current Harvard seniors were just coming into their own in Little League, Dunne won three silver medals in the 1982 world championship for disabled skiers...
Besides enjoying an unparalleled record ofsuccess in her sport-she was the only visuallyimpaired skier to win a medal at the disabledskiing Olympic in 1988--Dunne also foundcompanionship off the slopes. Dunne has enjoyed,she says, a great deal of camaraderie with some ofthe other skiers, something that has at leastpartly made up for the lack of a "normal"childhood due to her intense training...
...SKIER KRISTA SCHMIDINGER...
...last June, when most other Olympic hopefuls were lashed into rigid training programs, Norwegian cross-country skier Vegard ("the Viking") Ulvang was hunkered down somewhere in central Greenland, pondering the vexing little problem of survival. He and his best friend, Frenchman Pierre Gay- % Peret, had set out seven days before to ski 355 miles across the world's largest island. Though the speediest previous crossing by their chosen route had been 25 days, they had brought enough food for just 20. "We wanted to go fast," explains Ulvang. But their pace during the first week had been crabbed...