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Just as Eberharter, the World Cup champion, had set up a nearly half-second lead, his countryman Fritz Strobl posted a time .28 sec. faster. And then came Norway's Lasse Kjus, .06 sec. quicker. Strobl, a personable and humorous character who in the summer months is a policeman, skied a perfect race while Eberharter made a couple of small errors. As he took in the joy of winning, Strobl said afterward, "I'm not out to beat anyone when I'm skiing. When I ski, I just want to ski well." Eberharter hid his disappointment well. "Everyone was expecting...
...different ways were very much in the minds of the French ski team, still recovering from the tragic death in a training accident last October of super-G world champion Régine Cavagnoud. Carole Montillet, a close friend of Cavagnoud's, said that it had been very difficult to come to Salt Lake City without their outstanding skier. "As a team," she said, "we wanted to dedicate this Olympics to Régine." And she did it in the best way possible, by taking the downhill gold...
Sitting on the bar at the top of the K90 hill, Simon Ammann felt "horrible, I was so nervous." The 20-year-old Swiss who had never won an international competition was up against the two big names of ski jumping, Germany's Sven Hannawald and Adam Malysz of Poland. But by the time Ammann leapt out into the pristine air over the Utah Olympic Park, he knew his final jump would be a good one. With a distance of 98.5 m and a perfect landing, it gave him the gold. He thus became the first Swiss ever...
Olympic downhill ski races are unkind to favorites. At Nagano in 1998, Jean-Luc Crétier took advantage of a spectacular crash by Austrian great...
Just as Eberharter, the World Cup champion, had set up a nearly half-second lead, his countryman Fritz Strobl posted a time .28 sec. faster. And then came Norway's Lasse Kjus, .06 sec. quicker. Strobl, a personable and humorous character who in the summer months is a policeman, skied a perfect race while Eberharter made a couple of small errors. As he took in the joy of winning, Strobl said afterward, "I'm not out to beat anyone when I'm skiing. When I ski, I just want to ski well." Eberharter hid his disappointment well. "Everyone was expecting...