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...different ways were very much in the minds of the French ski team, still recovering from the tragic death in a training accident last October of super-G world champion Régine Cavagnoud. Carole Montillet, a close friend of Cavagnoud's, said that it had been very difficult to come to Salt Lake City without their outstanding skier. "As a team," she said, "we wanted to dedicate this Olympics to Régine." And she did it in the best way possible, by taking the downhill gold...
Montillet, who has won only one World Cup race - and that in super-G - flew down the Wildflower course in a time of 1 min. 39.56 sec. to beat Italy's Isolde Kostner and the pre-race favorite, Renate Götschl from Austria. Götschl gracefully described Montillet as "one of the best skiers in the world." "I am very happy for her," she said. "She is a good girl." Montillet's success against two skiers who had proved themselves in international competition with nine world and World Cup championships between them was all the more surprising, since...
...different ways were very much in the minds of the French ski team, still recovering from the tragic death in a training accident last October of super-G world champion Régine Cavagnoud. Carole Montillet, a close friend of Cavagnoud's, said that it had been very difficult to come to Salt Lake City without their outstanding skier. "As a team," she said, "we wanted to dedicate this Olympics to Régine." And she did it in the best way possible, by taking the downhill gold...
Montillet, who has won only one World Cup race - and that in super-G - flew down the Wildflower course in a time of 1 min. 39.56 sec. to beat Italy's Isolde Kostner and the pre-race favorite, Renate Götschl from Austria. Götschl gracefully described Montillet as "one of the best skiers in the world." "I am very happy for her," she said. "She is a good girl." Montillet's success against two skiers who had proved themselves in international competition with nine world and World Cup championships between them was all the more surprising, since...
...accept the inherent dangers of their sport, some think that safety could be improved. "If the safety was in place correctly, that kind of stuff wouldn't happen," says America's Picabo Street, who won silver in the downhill at the 1994 Olympics in Lillehammer and gold in the super-G at the 1998 Nagano Games. The FIS, recognizing that skis are getting faster and that skiers could fly beyond the limits of the nets, regularly recommends modifying courses by shaving the lips of jumps and setting gate controls before jumps to slow the racers down...