Word: slalomers
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...Conway's Paula Kann. Andy marveled at the wide-open Western slopes, a sharp contrast to New England's shut-in trail skiing. "I couldn't get over the idea I was going like crazy," she says. She did go like crazy: first place in the slalom, her favorite because "it's more of a problem, more of a test of skill," and second place (behind Gretchen Fraser) in the downhill. At 15, Andy was on the Olympic team...
...Olympics brought her experience but no honors. And the next two years brought a series of adolescent ups & downs. At the 1949 tryouts for the F.I.S. team at Whitefish, Mont., she won both downhill and slalom. She hardly won another race all year. She fell in love; she had moods of depression; she almost decided to give up skiing...
...Whitefish that Andy met a blond Dartmouth skier, Dave Lawrence, 1949 U.S. giant slalom champion. They met the way skiers often do-suddenly. Dave took a header at Andy's feet, looked angrily up to see her regarding him with what he was sure was a "scornful expression." For her part, Andy didn't like the way Dave looked at her. Two weeks later they sat opposite each other at dinner, and Dave "kept looking at me in an accusing way and wiggling his eyebrows. It was absolutely infuriating." Being international skiers, they kept on meeting, and looking...
...Determined." But their primary interest, of course, was skiing. And Andy had her worries about that. She fell below expectations at Aspen's 1950 F.I.S. championships. She was sixth in slalom, ninth in giant slalom, twelfth in downhill. She didn't know what was wrong, but everything seemed to be. When the U.S. coach, Friedl Pfeiffer, suggested that she quit racing for a year, she thought nothing worse could ever happen to her. But "Friedl was right," Andy confesses. "I had been training for skiing night & day since 1947. I was losing the fun of it." Almost losing...
...Dave-a trip to Europe for pre-Olympic practice. A series of colds and spills wrecked Dave's trip, but Andy had one of the most fabulously successful seasons any skier could hope for. At Grindelwald she came in sixth in the downhill, second in the slalom, first in the giant slalom. Her confidence revived. Says Andy primly: "I was determined, and such were the results...