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...Olympics are a celebration of instants: not just in the milliseconds ticking away on every scoreboard in the Savoie but in the larger way in which 15 years of determination can turn on a single moment. Look away from the slope for an instant, touch the side of the run for a second, and 10,000 hours of practice are gone. The athletes carry alarm clocks -- or time bombs -- in their heads and measure their lives in heartbeats (193 a minute for a biathlete). "Luge is all feeling," explained Duncan Kennedy, an American luger who won by placing 10th (higher...
...curling team is 55, and his teammates are his son, his brother-in-law and his brother-in-law's son. The Winter Games are for anomalies and curiosities: children everywhere dream of running faster, jumping higher and swimming better than their friends. But of shooting down an icy slope at 70 m.p.h. on their backs? Or skiing as fast as they can around some loops, then stopping and shooting at a target while lying on the ground? Or curling...
...election campaign that is truly a referendum on Bush's first term," says Kamber. "If that changes, if our nominee's character or fitness for the job becomes the issue -- as happened with Dukakis, whom people couldn't see as Commander in Chief -- then we're on the slippery slope...
...slopes themselves are excellent. Sunday River makes a lot of snow, so the only time a skier will encounter icy trails is maybe the first ten or so feet of a black diamond or double black diamond slope. On a windy day, the snow on top of the mountain gets blown off. The trails are always very well covered past that. For a little excitement, many of the trails are only half groomed, leaving moguls for the adventurous skier. White Heat, the double black diamond trail, is a must ski. For the experienced skier. Sunday River also offers some very...
...might not know it, but Val d'Isere in the "Haute Savoie" is a world class ski resort and it is the biggest ski resort in Europe. It has so many slopes that you could ski through for a week without taking the same slope twice...