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Mahre, 23, went into the last race of the season, a giant slalom at Laax, Switzerland, needing a third-place finish or better to edge out the great Swedish slalom and giant-slalom specialist Ingemar Stenmark in the winter-long Cup competition. At the end of the two giant-slalom runs at Laax, Mahre had a combined time of 2 min. 40.05 sec. That put him in second place for the day behind Alexander Zhirov, a rising Soviet star, who came in at 2 min. 39.80 sec. Stenmark was third, at 2 min. 40.24 sec. But Mahre's finish...
...sixth after the first run in the Dartmouth slalom, but bombed in the second run. In the giant slalom, he was trying to hold on to a third, fell again in the second run, but pulled a Stenmark and got up, finishing sixth overall...
...Olympics took up two weeks of my time, and caused tears, laughs, tensions and above all excitement. I truly felt the patriotic joy that all Americans are supposed to have. Now that the Games are over, I will miss my gorgeous hockey team, incomparable Ingemar Stenmark and incredible Eric Heiden. I wasn't there, but I have new friends and heroes...
...fast as the mountain would allow. Leading after that first run, he was hardly out of the start house on the second when a bouncing gate pole dropped across his skis, slowing him for an instant, upsetting his concentration, almost making him fall. The damage was done; the imperturbable Stenmark overtook Mahre in the second run and snared the gold by half a second. Still, Mahre's silver made him only the third American man ever to win an Olympic alpine skiing medal of any kind. (Billy Kidd took a silver and Jimmy Heuga a bronze in the slalom...
...While Stenmark was being Stenmark, Europe's top women racers were putting on a spectacular show of their own on Whiteface Mountain. Austria's Annemarie Moser-Pröll had also come to Lake Placid with a point to prove. Like Stenmark, she held the record for World Cup career victories (61 for her, 46 for him) and, like Stenmark, she had never won an Olympic gold medal. At Sapporo in 1972, when she was 18, she had been forced to settle for two silvers, and she missed Innsbruck in 1976 because she was at home in Kleinarl...