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...WEDNESDAY It's home advantage for the ski-jump team: the event takes place on a holiday, so all Japan will be watching and cheering. Also, the mogulists will hit the bumps...
...SUNDAY Two-man teams will bob for gold, while ski jumpers move to the big hill. Russia's Grishuk and Platov will try to become the first ice dancers to repeat as Olympic champs...
...TUESDAY The Japanese ski jumpers lost the team gold in 1994 on the last jump, but Harada & Co. have renewed confidence. The gold-medal game in women's ice hockey...
...would-be Olympians are a few hundred miles south, in the volcanoes of central Oregon, where the second of three qualifying events is taking place. The Mount Bachelor ski area is packed with truckloads of sound equipment, brimming with $10,000 purses and populated by whole contingents of coaches. For the halfpipe, snowboarding's freestyle discipline and Haakonsen's main event, Todd Richards launches and spins his way past fellow American Ross Powers toward a victory. Richards, who defeated Haakonsen at last year's U.S. Open in Stratton, Vt., was expected to challenge Haakonsen for the gold in Nagano. Their...
...sponsorship issue is just one battle in an ongoing war between snowboarding's two governing bodies, the I.S.F. (International Snowboard Federation) and the F.I.S. (Federation Internationale du Ski). The International Olympic Committee's 1996 decision to award Olympic-qualifying status to the F.I.S., organizer of skiing's World Cup circuit, nearly sparked violence at some European events. Says Fawcett: "The F.I.S. didn't want anything to do with us until they realized it was going to be an Olympic event and that there would be [TV] network interest and a great deal of money." Other riders felt the F.I.S...