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Indeed, as an athlete, Phills regards himself as something other than a hulking specimen of brute force. Drafted by a junior professional hockey team in Canada when he was sixteen, a former high school football star, a competition-class water skier and a three-year member of Harvard's rugby team, Phills qualifies and an all-around athlete...
Borg's physical gifts alone would have been enough to make him extraordinary: regular pulse rate 35, usual blood pressure 70 over 30. His countryman Ingemar Stenmark, the slalom skier, placed second to him in a European health institute's study of the strength in athletes' legs. Then there were Borg's instincts. He was fitted with enough quickness even before trophy was installed, magnified by his almost eerie eyesight. "He's a robot from outer space," was always Court Jester Ilie Nastase's hushed theory, "a Martian." But of all the elements...
...barreled beautifully down Gstaad's ice-covered Horneggli-Schönried ski runs last week, but though the style was fearless, the conditions were fearful, and Spain's King Juan Carlos, 45, an expert skier, took a wild tumble that cracked his pelvis. Taken by stretcher to a hospital in the nearby Swiss town of Saanen, Juan Carlos was flown with his wife, Queen Sofia, to Madrid the next day aboard the royal DC-8. Ordered immobilized by his doctors for at least a month, the King will be fulfilling his duties from...
BORN. To Annemarie Moser-Proll, 29, competitive, headstrong Austrian 1980 Olympic gold medalist skier and six-time World Cup winner, regarded by many as the greatest woman downhill racer of all time, and Herbert Moser, 32, a ski-equipment salesman: their first child, a girl. Name: Marion. Weight: 6 Ib. 12 oz. Although Moser-Proll once before came out of retirement, she now claims to have quit racing permanently...
...back country. There, distinctions are blurred: touring fans discover the speedy pleasure of schussing, and downhillers get an aerobic workout on cross-country skis. The two passions meet in a 120-year-old technique called telemarking-a turn of great difficulty-which offers balance to the free-heeled skier. One ski is extended beyond the other until the skier is crouching. The rear ski rudders the front one into the turns necessary for steep downhill flights. One aficionado calls it "genuflecting on the run." A new generation of skis, slightly wider than the usual touring model and metal-edged...