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...giant-slalom event in Val d'Isere, France, and then drove seven hours to Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, the next day and won a slalom event. No other American had won two events in a row since Phil Mahre in 1983. Then, in early January in Adelboden, Switzerland, Miller won a race by nearly 2 sec. It's an astonishing margin, like winning by 20 m in a 100-m dash. He has been on the winners' podium eight times this season, compared with three last season...
...traditional powers of skiing - Switzerland, Austria and Italy - all this freestyle and half-pipe stuff is strictly New World. A course, a clock and a mountain are challenge enough. The Austrians have owned Alpine skiing lately, but the men's team has been devastated by injuries, most significantly to Hermann (the Herminator) Maier, a double gold- medal winner at Nagano who shattered his leg in a motorcycle accident last summer. Five other top Austrians are also on the shelf. Yet Austria is so deep it can easily claim gold through Stephan Eberharter, currently the No. 1 ranked skier on tour...
Around 3,000 big shots--everyone from Bill Gates to Bono to Hamid Karzai--will be in New York City this week for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum. This year the gabfest has decamped from its mountain fastness in Davos, Switzerland, for the charms of midtown Manhattan, where the movers and shakers will discuss the state of the world and glide from one party to another. I'd bet a trayful of caviar canapes that none of them will make it to Canal Street. Too bad; they could learn more there than they ever will...
...nice gesture of solidarity when the World Economic Forum shifted its annual gathering to New York City from its usual site in Davos, Switzerland. But already we're hearing wistful whispers from some who plan to attend the conference at the end of January and say they will miss the Swiss ski resort's quiet charm. They lament that they often can't tell whether their dinner partner said "four milling daughters" or "40 million dollars" in Manhattan restaurants where the tables are inches apart and the music is set on stun...
Austria is to alpine skiing what Switzerland is to money: small but powerful, and more than a match for the U.S., not to mention the rest of the schussing world. The Austrians have dominated skiing in recent years, whereas the last American man to win an Olympic Alpine gold was Tommy Moe in 1994. In general, U.S. downhillers have made the nation's soccer players look downright Brazilian...