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Eberharter has been a downhill monster, winning four races this season in addition to two super-Gs. The downhill course at Snowbasin already has racers tightening their boots because it's so demanding. "It doesn't favor heavy skiers," says former Olympian Billy Kidd, now director of skiing at Steamboat. "There's no place where you sit in your tuck. It's very technical. You are always on an edge. Eberharter will be tough to beat in downhill and super-G." Austria also has the top-ranked woman in Michaela Dorfmeister, another speed freak. To find Europe's best mogul...
Last October Régine Cavagnoud, who won the super-G World Cup in 2001 and was third overall in the World Cup standings, died in a freak training accident on the Pitztal glacier, near Innsbruck. During a joint French and German team-practice session, the 31-year-old Cavagnoud was speeding down the ice at around 65 km/h when she crashed into German coach Markus Anwander. Both sustained head injuries, and Cavagnoud went into cardiac arrest. Two days later she died. Germany's World combined champion Martina Ertl spoke for many of her fellow competitors when she said, "This...
...Salt Lake City to cap her career with a gold in the downhill, her signature event. After failing to finish in the top 30 at last week's World Cup race in Cortina, Italy, she won't have the chance to duplicate her surprise gold medal performance in the super-G at the '98 Nagano Games...
Eberharter has had two careers. In 1991 at the age of 21, he became the youngest member of the Austrian team, winning world championships in the super-G and the combined downhill and slalom. But then came the injuries. A torn ligament in practice for the 1992 Albertville Games, a broken collarbone later in the year and a torn anterior cruciate ligament in 1994 kept him off the piste. Poor form in 1995-1996 prompted the coaches to drop him from the World Cup team to the less competitive Europa Cup, where he dominated the 1996-97 season and returned...
...Eberharter that was the season that fellow Austrian Hermann Maier, who had turned professional only in 1994, won his first World Cup event. From then on Eberharter was the eternal bridesmaid. At the Nagano Games in 1998 he won giant slalom silver to Maier's gold. In the 1999 super-G World Cup standings he finished second, as he did in the 2000-2001 downhill and overall placings. By the end of 2000-2001 Eberharter had finished second to Maier, dubbed the Herminator by countryman Arnold Schwarzenegger, in 11 out of 13 World Cup races...