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...even with little on-snow time, the ski team posted its best record since entering ECAC division 5 in 1976. Senior alpine captain Eric Klaussen led the surge, becoming the first Harvard skier to go to the NCAA nationals in both slalom and giant slalom since...
...team isn't discouraged by its showing, nor by the difficulties it has building a deep squad at Harvard. "Considering our budget and our lack of facilities, we did extremely well," one alpine skier said...
...time to shoot the ad, is $50,000. But IMG generally insists on a minimum two-year deal with a 15% fee increase the second year. Budget-minded advertisers willing to settle for less than No. 1 one can hire Vitas Gerulaitis for a modest $30,000 annualy, Skier Jean-Claude Killy for $25,000, Golfer Ben Crenshaw for $20,000 or twelfth-ranked tennis player Peter Fleming for $15,000. But Borg is the one they want...
Three days later, Stenmark skied the shorter slalom course with such artistry that he won his second gold medal, plucking it away from Phil Mahre, 22, probably the finest male skier the U.S. has ever produced. After his ankle injury on the same Whiteface course a year ago, Mahre began skiing toward a surprising comeback. In his first race in Europe this winter, he did well enough to earn World Cup points. Said Team Director Bill Marolt: "Who could have believed he could do it in his first race? God, what an athlete...
Mahre is a strong and bold competitor. His first run down Whiteface last week was a brilliant attack-nothing held back, no ghosts, no fear, just a great technical skier slicing through the gates on a line as pure and fast as the mountain would allow. Leading after that first run, he was hardly out of the start house on the second when a bouncing gate pole dropped across his skis, slowing him for an instant, upsetting his concentration, almost making him fall. The damage was done; the imperturbable Stenmark overtook Mahre in the second run and snared the gold...