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...season, though, Miller has been a fixture on the winners' stand of the World Cup tour, Europe's glamorous winter circuit. He has won four races outright, something an American hasn't done in almost two decades. At Salt Lake City he will be a medal contender in the slalom, giant slalom and combined (downhill and slalom) events, "the variety pack," as he calls...
...difference this year is that Miller knows he's faster than anyone else running slalom gates; it's just a question of how fast he needs to be to win. So he has learned how to better manage that tiny margin of error that separates world beaters from snow eaters. "He doesn't have to go all out every run," explains Tommy Moe, who won the downhill in 1994. "When you get that confident, it's really easy to ski fast...
...technical" events--slalom and giant slalom--Kristina Koznick, the prodigal child of the women's team, is returning home in great form. And Picabo Street has once again been surgically reassembled to contest the downhill. One more sensational crash, though, and she will have to be sold for parts...
...bravura of aerials, Miller may prove that when it comes to the Olympics, speed still thrills. Certainly Europe hasn't lost its "hup, hup, hup" for slalom. Two weeks ago in Schladming, Austria, for instance, Miller won a World Cup slalom in front of a roaring crowd of 50,000. "Everyone's talking about him," says U.S. technical coach Jesse Hunt. "They know him by his first name," as if he were a soccer star...
TIME: How about Alpine skiing? Menyoli: I don't want to do downhill. I want to keep my sanity. I don't want to hurt myself. I have done downhill, and it does help my cross-country. But I will never become a giant slalom racer. It's just risky. Why would you want to go through that? I could slam into a tree and just die! Cross-country skiing has some risk, but you can't really just hurt yourself. The speeds are not high...