Word: slalomer
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What astonishes his European rivals is that he can be so good and still have so much fun. When he comes slashing down a mountainside, weaving expertly through the slalom gates, the handsome young man from White Pass, Wash., is obviously having a marvelous time. He skis, as one leading foreign coach puts it, "for sheer joy, unlike the Europeans, who often are driven by political, nationalistic or commercial pressures." At the age of 20, with his best years just ahead, Phil Mahre (pronounced mare) is already the finest American male skier in history, a solid gold-medal prospect...
...when a freak avalanche buried him to the waist and broke his right leg. One year later he fractured the leg a second time while clowning around on a children's slide. Within 18 months, however, Mahre had recovered sufficiently to place a respectable fifth in the giant slalom in Innsbruck...
...qualified for the Middlebury championships after a strong showing at the Williams carnival a week earlier. Freshman Eric Klaussen took 14th in the giant slalom at Williamstown, while juniors Alan Hale, Tim Hofer and Phil Duff finished the slalom in good form to give the alpine team a fourth in that event and a fifth in the alpine combined...
...after the eastern championships, Fatjova and Rubinowitz took off for the nationals at Red River, N.M. The alpine courses were close to unskiable, as less than half of the starters managed to finish the race. Both the slalom and giant slalom honors went to Tolil Forland, an Olympic bronze medalist from the University of Utah. Fatjova hung in on a tough slalom course to finish 28th...
Eric Klaussen finished 23rd on the packed powder of the slalom run and Allen Hale followed in 28th for the Crimson. Andy Demars led the Harvard cross country contingent with his effort...