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...senators to oppose the bill. Yet not every athlete desperate to find a welcoming Olympic team makes the cut. Greece's national bobsled and skeleton teams include at least two Canadians and three Americans with dual citizenship, but they still didn't qualify for the Games. Austrian skier Josef Strobl had no chance to penetrate his country's talent-deep ski team. So Strobl, who had a Slovenian great-grandfather, tried for a spot on Slovenia's team - but didn't make that, either. The Olympic dream fuels the nation-hopping. Alpine skier Christelle Douibi and cross-country skier Noureddine...
Just as Eberharter, the World Cup champion, had set up a nearly half-second lead, his countryman Fritz Strobl posted a time .28 sec. faster. And then came Norway's Lasse Kjus, .06 sec. quicker. Strobl, a personable and humorous character who in the summer months is a policeman, skied a perfect race while Eberharter made a couple of small errors. As he took in the joy of winning, Strobl said afterward, "I'm not out to beat anyone when I'm skiing. When I ski, I just want to ski well." Eberharter hid his disappointment well. "Everyone was expecting...
Just as Eberharter, the World Cup champion, had set up a nearly half-second lead, his countryman Fritz Strobl posted a time .28 sec. faster. And then came Norway's Lasse Kjus, .06 sec. quicker. Strobl, a personable and humorous character who in the summer months is a policeman, skied a perfect race while Eberharter made a couple of small errors. As he took in the joy of winning, Strobl said afterward, "I'm not out to beat anyone when I'm skiing. When I ski, I just want to ski well." Eberharter hid his disappointment well. "Everyone was expecting...
...still they crash. Austria's Hannes Trinkl, who suffered a cracked skull and a concussion in training at Schladming in November, recovered to take second place to the season's top downhiller Stephan Eberharter at Wengen in January. Third in that race was Josef Strobl, who fell in training for the next race, tearing knee ligaments and putting him out of action for six months. Robert Brunner, agent for a number of top Austrian skiers, is, like the racers, philosophical about the dangers. "There is a risk every racer takes when he goes downhill," he says. "They go very fast...
There was also fun to be had pulling down Soviet war memorials. High on Gellert Hill, antlike figures swarmed around Sculptor Szigmund Strobl's i soft, statue of Freedom, a graceful woman guarded by the bronze statue of a Russian soldier. Slowly the crowd, pulling on lines attached to the soldier, rocked the statue back and forth, until he tipped forward on his face. There had been no looting in the city thus far, but to walk abroad at night was to hazard being shot at (see PRESS) or stopped by some tough young rebel and made to show...