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...typical visitor as he swung around his 14th switchback in 10 minutes, in a bus that labored painfully up the mountain curves like a slaloming snail, its driver consulting a map as he lurched along on the two-hour trip from Albertville to such distant sites as Courchevel and Val d'Isere. Any time not spent in a bus in the days before the Games seemed to be spent in a line for a bus. And on the epic rides along treacherous, icy roads, the passenger could be forgiven for thinking himself a born luger and wondering which new Olympic...
...real, unofficial master of ceremonies of the Games would naturally be the weather. One balmy day of 55 degreesF warmth gave way to huge chunks of snow, falling relentlessly for almost 24 hours and leaving a foot of the white stuff on Val d'Isere. The next day, however, dawned guiltless again. The Chinese delegation drank champagne and sang such favorites as Salute the World to ring in the Year of the Monkey. Visitors looked forward to hearing Beethoven's Ode to Joy, which would accompany every Unified Team gold. And the World Sugar Research Conference was taking place...
...Olympic Winter Games will be a soaring high-wire act: 57 events staged in 10 venues across seven valleys and 620 sq. mi. of the Savoie region's magnificent mountain peaks. Following Albertville's opening ceremony this Saturday, the Olympics will take off into the wild white yonder of Val d'Isere, Courchevel and other mountaintop resorts. "I would like people to go home feeling that they spent a fortnight on another planet," says Jean-Claude Killy, ski-racing legend and co-president of the Games...
...that one secret of success is not to peak too early. So far, the 23-year-old American is right on schedule. Two years ago, he finished fourth in a World Cup downhill, earning a reputation as a comer. This season he bagged a World Cup downhill victory at Val d'Isere, the first world-class win by an American male since Bill Johnson struck Olympic gold in 1984. Kitt was serving notice that he had arrived -- just in time, if all goes according to plan, to max out next week on the slopes near Val d'Isere...
REPORTERS: Elizabeth L. Bland, Barbara Burke, Val Castronovo, Wendy Cole, Tom Curry, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Sophfronia Scott Gregory, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Sinting Lai, Daniel S. Levy, Andrew Purvis, Michael Quinn, Andrea Sachs, Alain L. Sanders, David Seideman, David E. Thigpen, Susanne Washburn, Leslie Whitaker, Linda Williams, Linda Young...