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...fourth in the giant slalom but hooked a gate and tumbled in the slalom. "You have to take chances to win," she said. "I took one too many." On the last day of the Games, Phil Mahre, the three-time overall World Cup champion, the most accomplished skier in U.S. history, finally won his gold medal. He passed Brother Steve in the second run as the twins finished 1-2 in the slalom. As soon as Phil streamed over the finish line, he was on the walkie-talkie to his brother on the hilltop. But Steve acted too recklessly...
...gold-medal effort, Phil Mahre said that Johnson's win "could be a good thing or it could be a disaster, it's all up to Billy." Like other top practitioners who have watched Johnson, Mahre says that technically he is not that good a skier, especially on hard snow...
...with his present style he could never win a demanding race like the Hahnenkamm. But he added, "You've got to give the guy credit. It's one thing to be so goddam sure of yourself and another to be absolutely right. He was definitely the best skier on the course today...
Demonstrating his passion for cold, Lamine Gueye, 23, an Alpine skier from sub-Sahara Africa who went on from water skiing after moving to Paris, was standing outside on the bitterest day of the Games eating two ice-cream cones at once. As the one-man Olympic team from Senegal, he suffers people's curiosity with a pleasant shrug. "I'm black and I'm a ski racer and I'm Senegalese and I'm tall, but I wish that I could just be a ski racer. I'm crazy about the downhill...
...proud to represent my country," said Chinese Alpine Skier Wang Guizhen, 23. "Our level is not high, but I took part in the Lake Placid Games and I feel we've made some progress." Well, some ... She placed 18th in the 1980 giant slalom, but tangled with a gate in the first run at Sarajevo and was disqualified. Said Jin Xuefei, 20, also on the Chinese women's team (her name means "flying golden snow"): "Our aim at the Olympics is to study athletes from other countries, especially the American women." What of the future? The young women...