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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...
...SKIER KRISTA SCHMIDINGER...
...last June, when most other Olympic hopefuls were lashed into rigid training programs, Norwegian cross-country skier Vegard ("the Viking") Ulvang was hunkered down somewhere in central Greenland, pondering the vexing little problem of survival. He and his best friend, Frenchman Pierre Gay- % Peret, had set out seven days before to ski 355 miles across the world's largest island. Though the speediest previous crossing by their chosen route had been 25 days, they had brought enough food for just 20. "We wanted to go fast," explains Ulvang. But their pace during the first week had been crabbed...