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...every four years is not whether a pickup team of U.S. hockey players can confound the world by winning again, or even whether the Olympic committee can exceed its previous stuffiness in the matter of amateurism (it can: two champion skiers, Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark and Liechtenstein's Hanni Wenzel, were ruled out of this Olympics for accepting their loot too directly). No, what is fascinating is to learn whether the harried and exasperated hosts, driven googly by the problems of cosseting tens of thousands of athletes and their keepers and watchers in a region where even lichen feel uncomfortable...
...magic." Last season had been forecast as a watershed year for Coor per, but it was McKinney who made history. During 16 years of World Cup competition, only twice before had one country swept the overall titles, and no American woman had ever won. McKinney beat Hanni Wenzel. In all the Olympics, U.S. women Alpine skiers have gathered twelve medals, with Gretchen Fraser (1948), Andrea Mead Lawrence (1952) and Barbara Ann Cochran (1972) earning gold...
...believe it, but it feels great," said McKinney. "I was a little nervous about the race today. I just let the skis run." When Switzerland's Erika Hess, the defending champion, fell at a gate last week, McKinney moved up from third place, past Hess and Hanni Wenzel of Liechtenstein. Then, summoning what she called "the best ski days of my career," Tamara won two giant slaloms in Waterville Valley, N.H., her fourth and fifth victories of the winter. "I took some chances," she said, "and just...
...effortlessly, but also controls the manner of his winning-typically skiing a safe, relatively slow run, and then a second run just fast enough to beat the field on combined time. Stenmark refused to enter downhill races last season. He was narrowly beaten in the World Cup by Andreas Wenzel of Liechtenstein, a three-event...
Behind Annemarie to take the silver came Liechtenstein's Hanni Wenzel, 23, the stocky older sister of Andreas, 21. In the women's giant slalom, Hanni and Annemarie reversed their positions, and then some. Hanni worked down the course in smooth and easy runs to take the gold, with West Germany's Irene Epple winning the silver and France's Perrine Pelen the bronze. Annemarie, who does not care much for the giant slalom, finished sixth...