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Yesterday's first run of the men's giant slalom made for the biggest surprise of the day, as highly favored Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden stood in third place behind Lichenstein's Andreas Wenzel and Hans Enn of Austria. If Wenzel maintains his position and wins the gold, he will complete the first brother-sister alpine-medal winning act in Olympic history. His sister Hanni won the women's downhill Sunday...
...Stenmark, the three-time World Cup champion, refused to talk with reporters after the race...
Tuesday, Feb. 19, 8-11 p.m.: The giant slalom presents the finest male skier in the world: Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark, 23, who dissects mountains with the cool aplomb of a heart surgeon. Stenmark's top rivals: Yugoslavia's Bozan Krizaj, Liechtenstein's Wenzel and the game Mahre, whom Killy calls "a first-rate athlete." At 11:30-11:45 p.m., Eric Heiden tries for gold in the 1,000 meters...
...Stenmark was a desultory student, and even today his reading rarely goes beyond the nearest sports page...
...Stenmark's preparations for the Olympics were derailed last September when he took a hair-raising spill at Val di Senales, Italy, while practicing the downhill, of all things. He suffered a brain concussion and was unable to resume snow training for several weeks. "I've never before started so late in the year," says he, "but I'm not worried." But after his disappointing performance at Innsbruck in 1976-he managed only a bronze in the giant slalom-Stenmark is wary of making medal predictions. "The margins of victory are so small and accidental occurrences...