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This week, Behrend and Mason are in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, Daskalakis is back in the Garden...
McKinney is the first American woman to win an overall World Cup, and is also the giant-slalom champion. This season has likewise started slowly for her (seventh place), but last week in Maribor, Yugoslavia, McKinney followed Swiss Rival Erika Hess by just six-hundredths of a second, more than a good sign. "In the summer there was not much snow," McKinney says, "and I felt like I was training all the time. I think I got worn down by it." The trainer of the women's team, John Atkins, says, "If we put in the same amount of work...
...women alike, they will come to Yugoslavia dressed as cowboys, in white stetsons, fleece-lined shepherds' coats, boots and jeans. This is roughly the same rig the U.S. wore to the opening ceremonies four years ago. The American imagination must know some other variation of bundling...
...Americans in Yugoslavia, Hamilton, 25, is closest to a shoo-in for a gold medal. He finished fifth at Lake Placid in 1980, but since September of that year, he has won all his competitions, including four U.S. and three world championships. For all his easy-looking successes, Hamilton has had the inevitable emotional kinks to straighten out. "You have all these idealistic values about what a champion should be," he says, "and suddenly you're thrust into living up to it. I felt I could never let down. I drove myself crazy. I was terrible to myself...
They do a special one-handed lift with Kitty spinning prone, and in Yugoslavia they may attempt a quadruple throw...