Word: skiers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Skier Ulrike Maier, seeking a few extra points for her World Cup standing in a routine downhill race in the final season of a career that had already brought two world championships, broke her neck last month and died. Conditions were unquestionably risky. The timer pole that she hit was controversially sited. And Maier, a consummate pro, knew the dangers. But the slope was familiar, and 67 other competitors that day survived uneventfully. Her death emphasized for athletes and audiences alike the inherent risk in the Olympic goal of pushing "faster, higher, stronger" to the limit. It also underscored...
...hosts were not exempt from family travail, not even cross-country skier Vegard Ulvang, whose love of risk and three 1992 gold medals make him Norway's best-loved sportsman and its choice to take the Olympic athlete's oath. An American reporter reduced him to tears at a press conference by asking about the impact on his training of his brother Ketil's disappearance while jogging last October and of Vegard's fruitless search for the body, lost in snow at least until the spring thaw...
...money in a region many consider to be a black hole? "I have a fascination with risk," he says in his heavily accented English. "It makes me feel alive. I can get bored just living." While that confession may explain his activities as a speculator and breakneck downhill skier, it is only part of what drives a man who is himself a refugee from the region...
ASPEN'S TWIN PEAKS (ABC): Limited-run series. In the two-hour premiere, a lost skier, played by Kyle MacLachlan, goes for help, leaving his companion (Lara Flynn Boyle) in a cabin with only doughnuts to eat. She spends the next seven episodes hallucinating about a dancing dwarf (Jason Alexander). Directed by Jennifer Lynch...
...seasoned skier, nothing could be more alluring than a descent into a high-country valley carpeted with fresh-fallen snow. And nothing could be more treacherous. The same pristine slopes that offer powder hounds the thrill of carving first tracks can conceal thrills of a more perilous kind: avalanches, known to mountaineers as the "white death." Avalanches have already claimed 19 lives in the U.S. this winter. And last week five Coloradans, who lost their way in a subzero Aspen blizzard, were almost added to that number, raising awareness of the hazard...