Word: slaloming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Austria were not pained enough, Switzerland's Michela Figini and Maria Walliser showed the way in the women's downhill run. Erika Hess, the Swiss slalom star, had no happier time than Tamara McKinney, the U.S. World Cup champion, who was fourth in the giant slalom but hooked a gate and tumbled in the slalom. "You have to take chances to win," she said. "I took one too many." On the last day of the Games, Phil Mahre, the three-time overall World Cup champion, the most accomplished skier in U.S. history, finally won his gold medal...
...comparison, the women's giant-slalom race could not have been more different. Did Debbie ("Who?") Armstrong boast that she was going to win the women's G.S.? Not likely. This chunky, round-faced and unknown young woman with the great grin didn't dare to think about winning even after the race was over. But she ran second behind the fine U.S. racer Christin Cooper in the first run, and after the second, fizzing with joy and unburnt energy, she had taken the gold .4 sec. ahead of Cooper, who finished with a silver...
...these two eye-popping wins were not enough, the final day of the Games brought the U.S. the most satisfying result of all, a gallant 1-2 slalom finish by Phil and Steve Mahre in the final Olympic performances of their careers. It had been a wild week of ski racing, and maybe it was those crazy ski suits that gave the first hint. Nobody had ever seen anything like them: weird spirals of glowing pink and black, or yellow and orange, snaking up each leg and across the bottom-astonishing, even in hindsight-and then up the trunk...
...season began (Jim Johnson? Bill Jones?) won the most dramatic event of the Winter gambols, and all three women's race winners were known only to journalists who traveled the World Cup circuit. Armstrong was obscure, but so was Paoletta Magoni, 19, an Italian who won the slalom when half the women entered fell or missed gates in a thick fog. And Ursula Konzett, a 24-year-old Liechtensteiner, took the bronze. The only known quantity here was France's Perrine Pelen, who won the silver and, earlier, a bronze behind Armstrong and Cooper in the G.S. Four...
...Julen or Wenzel, however. It was for Yugoslav Jure Franko, the tall, good-looking G.S. specialist who won the silver, the first medal of any kind the Yugoslavs had ever won in a Winter Olympics. The 21-year-old Franko is less well known than Yugoslav Slalom Stars Bojan Krizaj and Boris Strel, who finished ninth and fifth, but Franko's performance was no real surprise. He ranked fifth in G.S. World Cup points coming into Sarajevo. A silver won by an ordinary Yugoslav would have been a good present for the Games' hospitable hosts, but Franko...