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Albert Lager '84, ranked in the top 20 in Canada, was the team's top cross-country skier last year, but left the ski team this year to devote himself to crew. "I liked going away every weekend, and I miss the skiing," he says...
...Flaine Zayak from Paramus, New Jersey? Who is America's most proficient cross-country skier? Tell me about bobsledding or the East German threat. What's lugging...
...World Cup downhill race. His teammates were jubilant, but no more so than the company that makes his ski boots. The day after Johnson's victory, executives at Swiss-owned Raichle Molitor U.S.A. began planning a new advertising campaign to celebrate the performance of the skier and his gear. The slick ads, picturing Johnson at full tilt, will soon appear in the pages of several ski-industry publications...
...McKinney hardly cuts the blocky figure of a woman skier. Actually, the entire women's team appears less robust than its regimen. At various boot camps from Hawaii to New Zealand, karate and pro football have been mixed into the exercises (Green Bay Packer Del Rodgers was a drill instructor). With the exception of three-time Olympian Cindy Nelson, a bronze-medal winner in 1976, they are extraordinarily fit. Nelson crashed a gate at Val d'Isere, France, last month and tore the ligaments in a knee. She returned to the U.S. immediately and has been working furiously...
America's premier minor-sports figure, Nordic Skier Bill Koch, 28, trains relentlessly for the first...