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...volunteer to host the Games - the resort doesn't really need the exposure. But once Vancouver won the Games, Whistler essentially had to rent itself out to the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) to provide the slopes for the men's and women's alpine skiing events, including the downhill, slalom, giant slalom, super G and the super combined. The contract calls for VANOC to reimburse Whistler for skier days lost to the Games. "VANOC's done a good job," says Jensen. "They're making us whole...
...Olympics for Mexico, but only the first since 1994. Although he qualified for the Torino Olympics in 2006, the Mexican Olympic Committee refused to send a one-man team. More eager for exposure this year, Mexico decided to support his next-to-nothing shot at a medal in the slalom and giant slalom races...
...Last Tuesday, Feb. 2, Vonn crashed during a slalom training run in Austria and nearly crushed her right shin. "I came down and got twisted funny and went over in front of my skis," Vonn said in front of 100 or so media members during an emotional press conference. "All the force went onto my shin. It's probably the worst place you can have an injury, because you're constantly pushing against your boot, and there's no way around it. You can't pretend that it's not there - you feel it in every turn." Vonn has tried...
...Unfortunately, her first scheduled event, the Feb. 14 super combined, mixes speed-heavy downhill racing, which won't require many twists and turns on a bruised lower leg, and slalom, which will. The injury may not cost her as much in the two races in which she is the heavy favorite, the Feb. 17 downhill and the Feb. 20 super-G. But if her shin is still sore after those races, she can almost forget about medals in the slalom and giant slalom, which are held during the second week of the Olympics. Yet another heartbreaking aspect of this story...
McNamara also improved greatly over his Carnival performance, earning a combined score of 22nd following a 38th-place finish in the giant slalom and a slalom race in which he did not finish the day before...