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...combined alpine and nordic scoring Vermont earned 1,199 points, Middlebury, with its home-snow advantage, took second at 1,164.5 points and Dartmouth finished third with 1,067 points...
...back through a vast video screen. "I was sick-to-my-stomach nervous," she said. "I tried to drink water. My insides felt like California during the earthquake." But somehow as she zipped past red barns and sailed over moose and lynx paths down a sun-striped highway of snow, Roffe-Steinrotter summoned Olympian reserves. First in line among 56 skiers in the super-G, a cross between a downhill and a giant-slalom course, she had no one else's mistakes to guide her. "It's one day, one hill, 1 1/2 minutes," she told herself, "and whoever shakes...
...keep warm -- and to keep time with the weirdly appropriate golden oldies blasting from loudspeakers. One tune, Achy Breaky Heart, seemed a dirge for the brilliant career of Swiss veteran Franz Heinzer, whose bindings snapped as he leaped out of the downhill's starting gate. Heinzer whacked the snow with his poles in fury and three days later announced his retirement...
...Aamodt, whose ski-coach father used to blindfold him on skis to teach him the feel of the snow, he is fast succeeding the Austrian Marc Girardelli, who competes for Luxembourg, as the world's best all-around skier. Leading in World Cup points, the charismatic Norwegian skis both downhill and slalom and could well rack up more medals this week. "In Norway we used to have the attitude that you should not do something special -- or at least you should not think you are special," Aamodt said. "But now we are developing a winner's attitude...
Down there, beneath the snow and the cinderblock and the surface gentility, a hidden battle rages...