Word: slalomed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...expounded, on a training program even more attractive than Jane Fonda's (pasta and sleep and plenty of female company); he predicted success, and for a while he transcended his predictions. By the time he accelerated through the final five gates of his second run in the giant slalom to ease past archrival Marc Girardelli and became the first Olympian skier to defend a championship, Tomba had left his signature in capital letters on the Games. Afterward, unshaven, in a baseball cap, with balloons around his neck, making comments about his prowess that his interpreter decided not to translate...
Only 24 hours after Italian skier Deborah Compagnoni won the gold medal in the super-G, she crashed in the giant slalom and suffered a ligament tear that ended her season...
American Diann Roffe and Austrian Anita Wachter both won silver medals in the giant slalom after finishing in the same hundredth of a second...
Even though he had a 40-sec. head start, Moroccan El Hassan Mahta was "lapped" in the men's giant slalom by Lebanon's Raymond Kayrouz, who careered past the slower Mahta. Both skiers missed gates and were disqualified...
...Isere is also the location for the 1992 Olympic downhill race and and grant slalom. Consequently, the town where Val d'Isere is located has changed, for the better. For one, access by car from Geneva, Switzerland, has been reduced to two and a half hours. For those who fly in by plane, public buses leave frequently from the Geneva airport. As for accommodations, there are apartments for rent as well as bed and breakfasts, but they do need to be reserved in advance. The ski passes will probably make the biggest dent in your budget, but it is worth...