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...then there's the ski jump. How exactly does one practice this sport? Or even worse, how does one learn that it just isn't his sport...
With most sports it is easy. If you can't hit a curveball, you turn in your bat (unless of course you are Michael Jordan). But in the ski jump, it seems like an awfully difficult lesson to learn...
Instead, I'm here to submit my own idea for a new sport that, in keeping with the present trend of bizarreness, may one day be in the Olympics: the ski biathlon...
...Cabinet of Spain's dictator Francisco Franco decades ago was "bad" and "may not be worthy of sport." The same day, in a rehearsal of an attempt to outdo the melodrama of 1992 in Barcelona -- when an archer ignited the Olympic flame with a streaking arrow -- Norwegian ski jumper Ole Gunnar Fidjestol sought to soar down the slope and vault into the air as one of the final bearers of the Olympic flame on its journey to Lillehammer. But he crashed askew, incurring a concussion and dropping out of his place of honor. The privilege went to Stein Gruben...
Schrobsdorff may not have conquered the weather, but she is the nerve center for nearly everything else for our 11-person team in Lillehammer. She doesn't ski or skate, and she majored in English at Barnard before joining TIME's New York City news desk a decade ago. But she has covered Olympics both chilly (Calgary in 1988, Albertville in 1992) and steamy (Seoul in 1988, Barcelona in 1992) and developed a dual role as reporter and logistics organizer. Says deputy chief of correspondents Paul Witteman: "Susanna has been our decathlete, mastering everything from telecommunications in Spain to computers...