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...happier time than Tamara McKinney, the U.S. World Cup champion, who was fourth in the giant slalom but hooked a gate and tumbled in the slalom. "You have to take chances to win," she said. "I took one too many." On the last day of the Games, Phil Mahre, the three-time overall World Cup champion, the most accomplished skier in U.S. history, finally won his gold medal. He passed Brother Steve in the second run as the twins finished 1-2 in the slalom. As soon as Phil streamed over the finish line, he was on the walkie-talkie...
...these two eye-popping wins were not enough, the final day of the Games brought the U.S. the most satisfying result of all, a gallant 1-2 slalom finish by Phil and Steve Mahre in the final Olympic performances of their careers. It had been a wild week of ski racing, and maybe it was those crazy ski suits that gave the first hint. Nobody had ever seen anything like them: weird spirals of glowing pink and black, or yellow and orange, snaking up each leg and across the bottom-astonishing, even in hindsight-and then up the trunk...
...commotion welcoming all the talented newcomers, the ski world seemed almost to forget about the 26-year-old twins from Yakima, Wash., whose careers had proved that U.S. men skiers could beat the world. Phil had won the World Cup three years in a row, and he had taken a silver in slalom at Lake Placid. Steve had won the G.S. world championship in 1982. But in the Sarajevo G.S., these anchors of the U.S. team could do no better than eighth and 17th. They were quitting after this season, they said, and they seemed tired of skiing. Poor...
They may as well mail the gold medal to his house, he went on, and on. Phil Mahre, a man of great modesty and foot scuffling, was clearly on Klammer's side...
...changed, as two recuperated skaters return to the Crimson lineup tonight. Senior cetner Phil Falcone, who led the team in scoring until he bruised his thigh in Czechoslovakia, will play his first game of the month and a half old year. Fellow center Tim McMahon also returns tonight, back from a hyperextended knee...