Word: slaloming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...startling reversal of his poor showing at the Olympics, Tomba won the last World Cup slalom of the season yesterday...
...timed in I minute, 42.84 seconds. Olympic slalom champion, Hans-Petter Buraas of Norway, was second, 14-hundredths of a second behind. Norway's Finn Christian Jagge was third...
...December alliance between the separatist snowboarders and the International Olympic Committee hardly survived even its honeymoon, as the aged judges said they would revoke the first snow-surfing gold medal ever--when traces of marijuana were found in Canada's Ross Rebagliati, winner of the men's giant slalom--and then were overruled, marking a triumph for rebellion. One foot was speeding forward, it seemed; the other was staying in place...
...long program of soulful if hardly flawless majesty, and collecting the medal he had won six years before. There was Georg Hackl, the businesslike German soldier, shooting away with the gold in the men's luge, as he had done in Lillehammer and in Albertville. And there was slalom ace Alberto Tomba, saying he wanted to find a girl to settle down with. As the newcomer Kazakova said, after surviving a singled double Axel, "We have a little problem"--and then her face brightened--"but I think no problem...
Three days after Canadian Ross Rebagliati took snowboarding's first-ever gold medal in the giant slalom, the I.O.C. asked him to give it back. The 26-year-old from British Columbia had tested positive for marijuana (a urine level of 17.8 nanograms per milliliter, exceeding the 15.0 limit set by snowboarding's Olympic governing body, the International Ski Federation), and after a 3-to-2 vote, the I.O.C.'s executive board recommended he be stripped of his prize. Rebagliati admitted to having smoked in the past, but he asserted that he had not sparked up since April 1997, claiming...