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...pasta and sleep and plenty of female company); he predicted success, and for a while he transcended his predictions. By the time he accelerated through the final five gates of his second run in the giant slalom to ease past archrival Marc Girardelli and became the first Olympian skier to defend a championship, Tomba had left his signature in capital letters on the Games. Afterward, unshaven, in a baseball cap, with balloons around his neck, making comments about his prowess that his interpreter decided not to translate, "La Bomba" all but ensured a transition from the small screen...
Only 24 hours after Italian skier Deborah Compagnoni won the gold medal in the super-G, she crashed in the giant slalom and suffered a ligament tear that ended her season...
When a leading Swedish newspaper, Expressen, ran two full pages dedicated to the "successes" of the Swedish Olympians, the space was blank. "There weren't any," read an explanation at the bottom of the pages. Swedish Alpine skier Pernilla Wiberg later won a gold medal in the women's giant slalom...
...pleasures of the day, the greatest perhaps were the unchoreographed wonders: the members of the Unified Team, from the famously ununified former Soviet Union, marching under the five-ring Olympic banner; the groups of athletes gleefully waving under the unfamiliar flags of Croatia, Lithuania and Latvia; the lonely skier from Senegal; and the ski-capped twosome from Bermuda, shuffling behind a man in blazer and (c-c-c-could it be?) eponymous shorts. Three days earlier, the show's dancers and clowns had been kids in duffel coats and anoraks, many of them threatening to strike on the grounds that...
...says French speedster Nicolas Bollon. Officially recognized by the International Ski Federation only in 1988, the sport has had an understandably hard time shaking its kamikaze reputation. Still, aficionados contend that it is reasonably sane and safe, at least relatively speaking. France's Michael Prufer, the world's fastest skier, blanches at the thought of pastimes like bungee jumping. "Too dangerous," he declares...