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Being at the Winter Olympic Games is like being at Disneyland. For the past 16 days, we have existed in an Enron-free world of snow and smiles. We have worried about medal tallies instead of death tolls, snowfall rather than falling stock prices. And now, as these Salt Lake City Games draw to a close, we find ourselves looking forward to the next Games...
...missed winning the super-G by a mere .05 sec. But she was happy enough with silver. "I was a little bit out of line," she said, "but it was fun." Two days' rest, and she went out to compete in the slalom over a difficult course with fresh snow covering soft ice. It was so difficult that 30 competitors failed to finish in either first or second runs. Kostelic had what she said were "two bad runs." They may not have been up to her exacting standards, but they were good enough for the gold. Then on Friday came...
...weather was right - no snow and not much wind - and so freestyle aerial skier Ales Valenta of the Czech Republic decided to try a quintuple twist with a triple back-flip. No one had ever attempted?much less landed?a five twist jump in the Olympics. For Valenta it was a maneuver he had completed perfectly only twice in practice. But he was trailing defending Olympic champion Eric Bergoust of the U.S. and three others after the first round of jumps. Valenta needed something spectacular to win. Indeed, the five-twist jump he executed was spectacular. Also decisive. He took...
...felt good. To immerse oneself in this perfect snow-globe universe of skis and skates and sleds, finish lines and stopwatches and scorecards, was to live in a smaller, more manageable world than had seemed possible before the torch was lit, in this winter of Afghanistan and Enron...
That the tricksters and cheats are strutting their stuff at all is some-thing of a miracle on ice and snow. The sudden admission of cheating as an Olympic sport threw Salt Lake City into a tizzy of frantic preparation to cram in a heavy schedule of new events before the Games' official close. A special commission, many of its members flaunting forged credentials, worked through the night at an improvised headquarters in the costliest suite in one of Salt Lake City's plushest hotels, reportedly paid for with a stolen credit card. By dawn the next day, they...