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...Games in the women's and men's giant slaloms. The leader after the women's first run was Blanca Fernandez-Ochoa, a Spaniard (and, reporters told each other happily, a sometime bullfighter) whose brother Paco won the slalom at the '72 Games in Sapporo. Blanca, a powerful, driving skier, looked so strong that Spanish fans phoned to Calgary for champagne as they waited for the second...
...parlaying a shortened downhill, started below the regular downhill's two fierce initial bends, and two runs of an easier version of the slalom, a fast-turning dash through flagged gates. On the first slalom run Zurbriggen, an all-event virtuoso in whom there is a fine gate skier crying for practice time, tied for sixth behind several slalom slitherers. He led the combined on points. Then, needing only a safe second run to win, he charged too hard, hooked a gate and fell within sight of the finish...
...effect on my racing." Or the course. "It was an easy slope, not too hard for me. I was going so fast, and you never know on slalom." Soon the rare mistake was behind him, and he was talking of his admiration for the great Swedish skier Ingemar Stenmark, against whom he expects to race in the slalom and giant slalom this week. From Stenmark, he said, "I learned that when you want to make power, you must be quiet. Then you explode." But, he added ruefully, "you cannot go over your limit...
...skiers? Looking at so-so from the underside, as expected. Buried chin-deep in drifts of analysis. There was little need for brooding after the glorious Sarajevo Games, when Debbie Armstrong and Christin Cooper won their gold and silver in the giant slalom, Phil and Steve Mahre a gold and a silver in slalom, and Bill Johnson, to expert eyes more scamster than skier, pulled his lovely downhill win. Now in the small traveling circus of ski racing it was being said that young skiers in the U.S. were too regimented, ran too many drills and never learned to free...
...taking pictures blundered into his path during a ski test a few weeks ago, creaked to 32nd place in the downhill. A.J. Kitt and Jeff Olson, a couple of youngsters still getting used to the World Cup circuit, did respectably to finish 26th and 28th. No U.S. male skier survived the combined. Among the women, early-season injuries knocked out Star Tamara McKinney, '84 Gold Medalist Armstrong, Downhillers Eva Twardokens, Tori Pillinger, Adel Allender and Diann Roffe. (McKinney and Armstrong, on the mend, are at Calgary and ready to race.) Then only an hour before she was to race...