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...horrible, I was so nervous." The 20-year-old Swiss who had never won an international competition was up against the two big names of ski jumping, Germany's Sven Hannawald and Adam Malysz of Poland. But by the time Ammann leapt out into the pristine air over the Utah Olympic Park, he knew his final jump would be a good one. With a distance of 98.5 m and a perfect landing, it gave him the gold. He thus became the first Swiss ever to win in Olympic ski jumping...
...Olympic moments, American Jonny Moseley, the 1998 freestyle moguls gold medalist, soared off the end of the jump. Twisting and rotating 720? horizontally in the air, he landed the ostentatious stunt he calls the dinner roll. A crowd of 14,000 in stands perched on the side of a Utah mountain waved flags, clanged cowbells and cheered. Loudly...
...communications. Special forces--the heroes of Afghanistan--are scheduled to get antimissile sensors and jammers, along with four AC-130 gunships. And nearly $38 billion is earmarked for the military's growing role in homeland security. This week, for example, there are more U.S. troops patrolling the Olympics in Utah than there are in Afghanistan...
...know what we have to do,” Smith said after the team practiced yesterday at a small rink on the University of Utah campus. “Hard feelings aside, we’re the world champions representing the United States in our home country. We’ll do what we need...
...substantial pressure for young men in the Mormon Church to go on missions. For many Harvard students, this can mean leaving for a mission site after their first year or their 19th birthday. For Jarvis, this was not an entirely pleasant experience. After a month of training in Utah, he left in the summer of 1997 for Spain, a country notorious for anti-Mormon sentiment. Two years of knocking on doors to offer prepared lectures on the Mormon doctrine was “really difficult a lot of the time,” relates Jarvis. “I couldn?...