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  • Was It Worth It?
    Despite the loutish behavior of the U.S. hockey team and the favorites' early ouster, the answer is, Yes, this was a dream of a tournament

    Golden Girls
    A talented U.S. women's hockey team showed its mettle by defeating favored Canada

    A Holy Tara
    While Michelle Kwan was all business, Tara Lipinski was determined to make friends and have fun, and she left Nagano with a cool keepsake

     
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    Let it Snow

    Weather was bad, but performances were hot

    The snow fell during the Nagano Olympic Winter Games, and then it fell some more. But when the Nagano Games are remembered, when history takes stock of the Alpine skiing events, the fall of one skiing icon and the rise of another -- after a horrifying fall of his own -- will stand out.
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    Hermann Maier won two Alpine skiing gold medals   AP

    Buraas wins men's slalom; Tomba watches from hotel room
    With an injured Alberto Tomba watching from a hotel room, an orange-haired Norwegian won the men's slalom and wrapped up the weather-plagued Alpine skiing competition at the Nagano Games.
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    A quiet farewell for Tomba
    The emperor came. The earth moved. All was in place for Alberto Tomba's triumphant farewell to the Olympics.
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    Compagnoni wins women's giant slalom
    Deborah Compagnoni was not about to let it happen again, not in the event she has ruled for the past few years.
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    Austria's Maier wins giant slalom
    Hermann Maier swept to his second Alpine skiing gold of the Olympics on Thursday, blasting aside his giant slalom rivals.
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    Germany's Gerg shocks self with women's slalom win
    Germany's Hilde Gerg mastered a steep and dangerously icy course to edge Italy's Deborah Compagnoni by six-hundredths of a second Thursday and win the Olympic women's slalom.
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    Seizinger sizes up second gold medal
    The sight of Katja Seizinger and her German teammates on the victory podium wasn't lost on 18-year-old Caroline Lalive.
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    Tomba tumbles hard in GS, questionable for slalom
    Eight gates, 18 seconds and one "Did Not Finish." Alberto Tomba's first bid to win a medal in four straight Olympics lasted barely long enough for his legion of fans to glimpse him on the sun-drenched Mount Higashidate course.
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    From Sports Illustrated

    Street Fighting
    Picabo Street and Hermann Maier overcame adversity to win skiing gold, but did unrest in Street's camp thwart her quest for another medal?

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    FEBRUARY 17
      Seizinger once again rules the slopes
    Blizzard wipes out men's giant slalom
    Combined silver may turn to gold in GS for Ertl
    Seizinger sizes up second gold medal

    FEBRUARY 16
      Street surprises everyone by holding back on downhill
    Persistence pays as alpine events 'within' schedule
    Seizinger also fastest in combined downhill

    FEBRUARY 15
      Germany's Seizinger wins downhill; Street sixth
    Super G? Maybe we should re-evaluate it

    FEBRUARY 14
      Injured Italian downhiller taken back home for surgery

    FEBRUARY 13
      Norway's Kjus gets two skiing medals in one day
    'Herminator' will be back for Super G
    Clark, 20, enjoys chance to emerge from Street's shadow

    FEBRUARY 12
      Shortening downhill course still a possibility
    Weather again postpones downhill skiing

    FEBRUARY 11
      Street skis to gold in Super G
    Street's Super G triumph no surprise to German favorite

    FEBRUARY 10
      Skiing finally begins with men's combined slalom
    Street hopes Nagano last stop on road to Olympic gold


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