Word: slalomer
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Watching soccer is the big sport here, and smoking in cafes and schmoozing about soccer are the big winter sports. It is true that Bojan Krizaj, the flashy blond who finished fourth at Lake Placid in the giant slalom, is something of a hero, and that no one can be found who does not expect him to win a gold medal. That would be nice, in the local view, but if Krizaj succeeds, he will not get a hotel of his own, as Austrian ski heroes do. This is Bosnia, after all, and Krizaj is a miserable Slovenian...
...Phil Mahre and McKinney, the U.S. boasts both overall 1983 World Cup champions in Alpine skiing, an astonishing double in a sport that has been essentially the property of Western Europe. As of four years ago, Marilyn Cochran's giant-slalom title in 1969 constituted the Americans' solitary accomplishment in any of the three World Cup disciplines: slalom, giant slalom and downhill racing. While winning three overall championships since 1980, Mahre has skied away with three individual World Cup titles, and his twin brother Steve is a past world champion in the giant slalom. While both Mahres have begun...
McKinney is the first American woman to win an overall World Cup, and is also the giant-slalom champion. This season has likewise started slowly for her (seventh place), but last week in Maribor, Yugoslavia, McKinney followed Swiss Rival Erika Hess by just six-hundredths of a second, more than a good sign. "In the summer there was not much snow," McKinney says, "and I felt like I was training all the time. I think I got worn down by it." The trainer of the women's team, John Atkins, says, "If we put in the same amount of work...
Joining McKinney among the well bruised are Christin Cooper, a slalom and giant-slalom specialist who sometimes outshines Tamara, and Downhiller Maria Maricich. If Veteran Cindy Nelson is recovered from a knee injury, she is strong across the board...
...Lexington, Ky., but the reigning women's overall World Cup champion, Tamara McKinney, is from there. For three years, Phil Mahre of Yakima, Wash., has been the men's overall World Cup king, and his twin, Steve, holds the World Championship gold medal in the giant slalom. Skiers have been spotted in the Cascades before, but none like the Mahres (pronounced mares), who are leading the most promising U.S. team in history to the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo...