Word: sporting
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...with the derring-do of a bobsledder and enduring late deadlines with the stamina of a cross-country skier. Our coach is Senior Editor Jose M. Ferrer III, who will be supervising his third set of Olympics competitions from New York City. Ferrer demonstrated his gold-medal mettle as Sport editor during the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo and the Summer Games in Los Angeles. Now, as then, his aim is to present readers with coverage that is expert and colorful yet uncluttered with sports jargon. "My two sons are great skiers," says Ferrer, "so I know that a mogul...
Ferrer has edited TIME's Sport section for six years, though he professes to be neither an athlete nor a rabid fan. "I bring a tempering influence to our coverage," he says. "If it's too 'inside' and I can't understand what we're trying to say, it's a pretty good bet lots of our readers won't understand either." Preparation for the Calgary Games required that Ferrer take time away from his other responsibilities: editing the Law, Religion, Press and Education sections. He enjoys the change of pace. "Major events give readers a sense of TIME...
Another blockbuster day. -- Josh Thompson could be the first U.S. medal winner in the ski-and-shoot sport of biathlon. -- Nykanen jumps for gold again, possibly achieving the unprecedented double. -- Weekend high: triple jumps galore from Boitano and Orser in the men's final...
Zurbriggen's cool psyche has a large, invisible eggshell around it. Everything he needs is inside. His ties are very strong to his parents and the small 30-bed sport hotel, called the Larchenhof, that his father Alois built and now runs. A ski racer himself, Alois quit when a younger brother died after a ski fall, but it was he who first encouraged Pirmin to race. Pirmin's girlfriend Moni Julen, a pretty, dark-haired ski instructor from Zermatt, is a cousin of his friend Max and is accepted as part of this tight, protective mountain clan, which includes...
...replaced by Chicago Bears wide receiver Willie Gault. Although the Olympic coaches have said that Gault made the sledding team strictly on the basis of his better push times, LaVigne has contended that he was cut unfairly and was the victim of a "political" maneuver designed to bring the sport badly-needed publicity...