Word: slaloming
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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...
...Lake Placid, N.Y., four years ago, Phil took a silver medal in the slalom, just the third Alpine medal collected by an American male in ten Games over 44 years; none has ever won a gold. In 1980 he finished behind the regal Swede Ingemar Stenmark, who also won the giant slalom. Slaloming is weaving through a course described by slender flagpoles. The giant slalom combines all this sideways whooshing with the third Alpine skiing discipline, downhill racing. While Phil also braves the downhill, he has basically followed the concentrated swerves of Stenmark, who has made slalom skiing more than...
Tamara McKinney started the new season better, with a second-place slalom finish to Erika Hess of Switzerland, but she has yet to reach 1983 form. Christin Cooper, 24, who wrecked a knee during a training run a year ago, has recovered her health and exuberance: "When you can take off and go where you want, you can go through trees. It's magic." Last season had been forecast as a watershed year for Coor per, but it was McKinney who made history. During 16 years of World Cup competition, only twice before had one country swept the overall...