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...larger controversies that almost forced the Games out of Nagano concerned downhill skiing. This dispute, resolved last December, dragged on for five years, creating obviously less-than-friendly relations between the Nagano Organizing Committee (NAOC) and the International Ski Federation (FIS). In brief, the NAOC, headed by Makoto Kobayashi, had been strongly opposed to a bid by the FIS to raise the start of the downhill event in Nagano by 120 meters to 1,800 meters. According to CNN, Kobayashi stated that doing so would "break environmental laws by putting it into a national park which covers part...
Michael Kennedy was an expert skier, and his death was not the result of reckless behavior [NATION, Jan. 12]. I was one of several fathers participating in the ski football game the day of the accident. I would certainly not have played with my 11-year-old son if there had been any evident danger. None of us were told not to play by any official of the Aspen Skiing Co. Ski-patrol members invariably skied behind us to complete their afternoon sweep, and ski-lift personnel routinely ferried our ski poles to the bottom of the mountain. Michael...
...suspect is six feet tall and has a mustache. He wore a red and blue woolen hat, blue jeans and a dark blue ski parka...
Even with the mild winter, some students are headed for the ski slopes...
...people, and we're going to stay at my house in North Hampton," Robin S. Goldstein '98 said of his ski trip with roommates. "We're then going to drive up to Killington and probably stay one night...