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...Winter Games are to that extent the eccentrics' Games, where athletes jump when they skate, and skate when they ski, and ski when they jump. Apart from the epochal Witt-Thomas confrontation in Calgary in 1988, what many people remember about recent Games are the Jamaican bobsled team, the skier from Senegal, the Taiwanese brothers who formed a bobsled crew and a 24-year- old English plasterer who put on his uniform and became "Eddie the Eagle" Edwards, an almost world-class ski jumper. This year the captain of the U.S. curling team is 55, and his teammates...
...SKI JUMPING...
...tried to get into the spirit of the new year, so I made a couple of resolutions as the ball dropped in Times Square. I promised myself that I would not procrastinate on papers anymore (I failed that by writing this article), that I would learn to ski, that I would not complain about dining hall food, and that I would not--not under any circumstance, not even if the fate of the free world rested on my shoulders--order the Olympic Triplecast on pay-per-view cable...
...East European fare in Parma, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb, she turned to the telemarketing skills she had acquired at the telephone company. Poldruhi, who is of Polish descent, made cold calls to all the doctors and lawyers listed in the phone book whose surnames ended with such suffixes as -ski and -cz. She raised $240,000. "I would have called every -ski in the U.S. and Poland if I had to," she says. Her new restaurant is called Parma Pierogies, named for the filled pastries she sells...
However, if you are claustrophobic and abhor being pressed together like sardines, three seat chair-lifts leave from every gondola station. In the last years however, despite being 1850 meters high in altitude, snow has been sparse at Christmas time, and the normally highly enjoyable "off-piste" skiing was disappointing. The best time to go is in February and March when snow is abundant. "Apres-ski" life ranges from English pubs to French nightclubs. Val d'Isere attracts mostly British and French skiers. If you like to ski, and want to find out how good you really...