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...Sunday, heavy snow and bad conditions hampered the racing in the giant slalom, and Bourgois was taken to the hospital after a bad fall on her first run. She stretched tendons in her foot and will not compete for several weeks...
Moonlight on the snow...
...late as the 1950s some doctors and first-aid manuals were recommending massage of a frostbitten limb with snow or ice, a treatment that traces back to Baron Larrey, Napoleon's chief surgeon on the Grand Army's disastrous retreat from Moscow during the bitter winter of 1812-13. Larrey believed such therapy reduced the likelihood of infection. But the experience of American doctors during the Korean War and more recently in Alaska has shown that the best treatment for frostbite is not more cold but rapid warming...
...Davos, Switzerland. A two-day snow has covered and closed the 400-meter speed-skating oval. Skaters from Poland, Canada and the U.S. jog through the quiet alpine village, play poker, and fret. "We've got to skate," says U.S. Sprint Specialist Peter Mueller. "We're losing precious time." At last, late in the afternoon, the ice is cleared and the Americans lace up. Their arms swinging in the hypnotic rhythm of the workout, the skaters seem oblivious to the cold and stinging snow. Round, round, round they go, fluid figures in the fading light...
...snow and on ice the world over, the artists and athletes of blade and board and bobsled have been pushing themselves to the limit, staying longer on the training course, sharpening edges, testing waxes, perfecting performances and steeling nerves. Now the preparing is at an end, and what for many is the focus of a lifetime of single-minded dedication begins: the test of the best in the quadrennial Winter Olympic Games...