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...suspect, who wore a ski mask, approached the employee and told her to fill up his red bag with cash, according to police...
That was before the children came. Before the royal duties and stately protocols began weighing as heavily as maternal pounds around the hips. Before the couple's enforced separations, then separations by choice: Fergie's impulsive flyaways to Alpine ski slopes and Mediterranean beaches, parties with dubious friends and displays of desperate merriment. Before Andrew began to slam her pals as "poncey philistines," and she to knock his sometimes boorish behavior as "terribly gauche...
...FINNISH WUNDERKIND SKI JUMPER TONI NIEMINEN
...when most other Olympic hopefuls were lashed into rigid training programs, Norwegian cross-country skier Vegard ("the Viking") Ulvang was hunkered down somewhere in central Greenland, pondering the vexing little problem of survival. He and his best friend, Frenchman Pierre Gay- % Peret, had set out seven days before to ski 355 miles across the world's largest island. Though the speediest previous crossing by their chosen route had been 25 days, they had brought enough food for just 20. "We wanted to go fast," explains Ulvang. But their pace during the first week had been crabbed by a snowstorm that...
Ulvang, 28, the most exhilarating Nordic athlete at Albertville, savors such moments of truth. "It's the idea of managing the elements that I like," he says. "In the wilderness or in competition, it takes planning and preparation to succeed." Norwegian ski officials were as mortified over Ulvang's Greenland trek as they had been the previous year when he climbed Alaska's 20,320-ft. Denali, the former Mount McKinley. But not even the most timorous Norwegian trainer is complaining now. Ulvang and his teammate Bjorn Daehlie each won three golds and a silver, leading the national team...