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...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...
...Steamboat Springs, Colo., and Bill Demong, 21, of Vermontville, N.Y., are part-timers. The U.S. has traditionally stunk in their event, the Nordic combined; Lodwick finished 20th at Nagano. This Olympiad, the U.S. co-opted the competition, poaching head coach Jan-Erik Aalbu from Norway, a perennial medal winner. Lodwick, now ranked fourth in the world, has a gold and a silver this World Cup season. Demong won an event in the Czech Republic two weeks ago. "I was hoping we could be strong," says Aalbu. "I was not expecting to be as strong as we are looking...
...that contest, freshman defenseman Noah Welch tied the game at 3-3 with under a minute to play. Junior forward Brett Nowak netted the winner in overtime...
TIME: Is there a need for changes in ski racing? STREET: Definitely. When you?re screaming down the mountain and 1/100th of a second is what separates the first, second and third person, everybody?s a winner. We all need to look at it that way. Trying to keep things from one another and having secrets isn?t going to be what makes the difference of that 1/100th...
Even L.L. Bean, a longtime Web winner, found room for improvement. A feature added to the website lets customers zoom in on a product to view stitching, zippers and other details not visible in the print catalog. About a third of L.L. Bean's online customers flip through a catalog, then plug in specific item numbers to initiate a sale--down from two-thirds a couple of years ago. If that trend holds, it could mean lower catalog-mailing expenses...