Word: stenmark
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...schedule still gives the Italian a chance to blow past the all-time season record of 13 wins posted in 1979 by Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden. Tomba's comeback is a bottomless source of marvel for his adoring fans. His Olympic disappointments last year in Lillehammer, Norway, led the three-time Winter Games gold medalist to consider retiring. His father, among others, talked him out of it, Tomba says. Last summer he trained intensively in Argentina and Chile, shedding the between-competition flab that at times has made La Bomba look more like an overgrown bambino. He returned in harder...
...loading door -- or human error -- led to the flooding of the car deck. Information indicates that the outer bow door had jarred loose and may even have ripped off completely. "There are several eyewitnesses who say the bow door was missing when the ferry went down," said Bengt Erik Stenmark, Sweden's maritime safety director. Investigations into the disaster could result in demands for changes to the roughly 4,500 similar ships in operation worldwide. Some specialists advocate installing dividers in the car decks to check the force of water flowing inside. But operators resist such baffles because they would...