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Junior Susannah Dickerson led Harvard skiers in the giant slalom with a time of 2:04.70, followed by sophomore Kathleen Connors and captain Molly Simmons. Connors led the Crimson with a 40th place finish in the slalom with a time...
Sophomore co-captain Daniel Tsai took 38th in the men’s giant slalom with a time of 1:51.55, while freshman Matt Basilico marked his collegiate debut with a 37th place run in the slalom with a time...
...made a habit of winning races even before the first snow drifts down into the mountain valleys. This year, again, he started faster than the rest. Miller won six of the first 10 races of the season, and he did so in all four disciplines, from the highly technical slalom event to the nail-biting, death-defying downhill. The last time anyone did that was Marc Girardelli, skiing for Luxembourg in 1988. But Girardelli needed 71 days to accomplish the feat. Miller, characteristically, took just 16. "I find my groove pretty quickly," Miller concedes with a shrug. He had just...
...Mountain. Miller was experimenting with different techniques in 1996 when a representative from ski manufacturer K2 handed him a pair of the new hourglass-shaped "side-cut" skis. At the Junior Olympics a week later, he was the first to use them. He won the Super-G and giant slalom - two speed events where the gates are spaced more widely apart than in ordinary slalom - by the unheard-of margin of more than 2 sec. each. Endowed with boyish good looks and an easygoing manner - he's known to enjoy a few beers after a race - Miller has a huge...
...most doctors. DIED. CHRISTL CRANZ-BORCHERS, 90, Germany 's most decorated female skier; in Germany. Winner of 12 world and two Olympic titles, Cranz was best known for her victory in the 1936 Olympic Alpine combined skiing event, where, after falling in the downhill, she came back in the slalom to take the gold medal. DIED. W. DORWIN TEAGUE, 94, prolific industrial designer who invented the mimeograph machine and the first fully reclining dentist chair, as well as improved versions of everything from cash registers to can openers; in Carbondale, Illinois...