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...goes to Salt Lake City, where he will line up for the 15-km classical race alongside some of his skiing heroes. He's looking forward to meeting World Cup leader Per Elofsson of Sweden, who is a gold-medal threat at every distance. And he wants to talk to the Italians; one of Menyoli's favorite cross-country moments was the finish of the Lillehammer men's relay, when Italy shocked the Norwegians at the line, winning by no more than a ski...
...cannot avoid the answers. When Menyoli asked himself what would happen if he became an Olympian, he knew the answer. "I'm such an amateur skier," he says. "It's tough." But the sport isn't really the point. Menyoli's Olympic-sized ambition is. "I want to ski for a reason," he says. "I want to tell people that they really have to watch out, that AIDS is serious." He'll deserve a medal if he gets that message across...
...Kostelics travel together as a family when they can, with brother and sister often training together. Father Ante, who coaches both, is pleased that neither "can ever have enough of skiing. Other skiers can't wait to take off their ski boots and do something else, but I have to make them stop...
...didn't always seem that they would develop such a passion for the sport. Janica was only three when she first put on skis, but her mother later recalled that she didn't seem to be a natural: "She was falling all the time and getting in the way of all the other kids on the slope. We thought she'd never learn." In the early 1990s Ante started taking the children to junior ski races around Europe. Money was so short that they slept in tents, or in their car when the weather got too cold, and Janica missed...
...entered. Despite that impressive record, in her first World Cup season, 1998-99, her third place in a slalom event at Park City, Utah, took officials by surprise. They couldn't find a Croatian flag for the award ceremony and Janica had to dig one out of her ski...