Word: stenmark
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...misty moments next day it seemed that the lead of Sweden's 31- year-old Ingemar Stenmark, greatest male skier of his time, would hold up in the snow-blurred second run of the men's slalom. Then the astonishing Tomba, third after the first run, swiveled down the course to first place and his second gold, ahead of West Germany's Frank Woerndl and another elderly gent, Liechtenstein's 30-year-old Paul Frommelt. Stenmark slipped to fifth. What now for La Bomba, two Ferraris? How do you say vroom-vroom in Italian...
...effect on my racing." Or the course. "It was an easy slope, not too hard for me. I was going so fast, and you never know on slalom." Soon the rare mistake was behind him, and he was talking of his admiration for the great Swedish skier Ingemar Stenmark, against whom he expects to race in the slalom and giant slalom this week. From Stenmark, he said, "I learned that when you want to make power, you must be quiet. Then you explode." But, he added ruefully, "you cannot go over your limit...
Slalom Specialist Tomba should dominate today. Sentimental favorite: Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark, the aging (nearly 32) double gold winner at Lake Placid. -- The grand battle of the Car mens. Thomas and Witt both skate a final program to the same opera's music -- the foray a d'or each must...
...gold medals and two silvers. He leads the current World Cup, and this Olympic year could establish him as the best all-event male Alpine skier since Jean-Claude Killy. Not the best male Alpine skier, without qualification, over this period; that would be Sweden's astonishing Ingemar Stenmark, still campaigning at 31, a self-invented slalom and giant slalom wizard who has won more World Cup races (85) than any other man. But Stenmark does not like downhills, and he won't run these down-in- flames plunges. He won golds in slalom and giant slalom at the Lake...
...whether Killy was an early hero. (Answers: "Mercedes is an excellent car, and they give me one free." And no, Pirmi, as he was called to his dismay, was only five when Killy retired; his heroes were the Italian Gustavo Thoni, the flashy Swiss star Bernhard Russi and Stenmark...