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Thirty-three and ready to try a second serve at marriage, to the mountain skier Andy Mill, Evert departed the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club for the first time in almost 20 years without the sure knowledge that she would return. "I don't know; we'll see," she said. During their tight semifinal, which may have turned on a bad call, Evert sensed a vulnerability in her old adversary that made her unhesitatingly pick Graf. "Martina's body language looks confident, but I can tell...
...several hours in a local emergency room waiting for special surgeons. The patient was eventually transferred to a trauma unit in San Francisco, where doctors had to amputate one of his legs. A more tragic case occurred at a Nevada hospital that claimed to specialize in trauma care. A skier with a ruptured spleen died while waiting for a CAT scan ordered by a surgeon who believed the patient's injuries were not immediately life threatening...
Next day came the men, or to put things accurately, the man. There seemed to be only one skier on the hill. Austrian Hubert Strolz, the combined gold medalist, skied superbly, and Zurbriggen only a little less so. They finished second and third. After the commanding first run by Alberto Tomba, the 21- year-old Italian now universally known as La Bomba, it never seemed possible that he would lose. He did not. Tomba is a big, curly-haired, laughing fellow, winner of seven World Cup races already this season, who seems too tall and bulky to be the world...
...misty moments next day it seemed that the lead of Sweden's 31- year-old Ingemar Stenmark, greatest male skier of his time, would hold up in the snow-blurred second run of the men's slalom. Then the astonishing Tomba, third after the first run, swiveled down the course to first place and his second gold, ahead of West Germany's Frank Woerndl and another elderly gent, Liechtenstein's 30-year-old Paul Frommelt. Stenmark slipped to fifth. What now for La Bomba, two Ferraris? How do you say vroom-vroom in Italian...
...fans in other countries had cause to rejoice in some non-prime- time, though historic, performances. East German Frank-Peter Roetsch was the first ever to capture both the 10-km and 20-km biathlons, a daunting standard for future ski shooters. Even more notably, Soviet Cross-Country Skier Raisa Smetanina tied for the most decorated competitor in the history of the Winter Games as she took a bronze in the 20 km, the record ninth medal of her four- Olympiad career. Even Britons, whose team failed to win a single medal, could take pride in a new national achievement...