Downhill Skiing

Friday September 22, 2000      "The Fantasticks," the beguiling musical in which reality collides with romance, has become America's longest-running theatrical production, an off-Broadway stalwart for more than four decades. Half a decade ago, director...

Picabo Street came back, her way, for this day. She circled Feb. 11 on the calendar the way you would a kid's birthday. The Olympic women's downhill is today at Snowbasin and the miracle is not that after multiple surgeries, Street will be competing in...

There are six of us, all women, sitting in the dusk about 1,300 feet above the Colorado River. The rock "temples" of the canyon surround us, Shiva and Isis to the left, Brahma and Zoroaster to the right. All eyes are trained on a maiden moon, draped in...

Alpine skiing: The men's World Cup tour is in Kitzbuehel, Austria, for super-giant slalom, downhill and slalom races this weekend. Five U.S. skiers finished in the top 25 last weekend in a World Cup slalom at Wengen, Switzerland. Erik Schlopy's 11th-place...

About the only hills in this grimy industrial city are the slag heaps left behind by decades of coal mining and the weed-choked refuse piles built up by the blue-collar masses since the Industrial Revolution. But Bottrop and another city 25 miles away,...

Unlike world figure skating champion Michelle Kwan and courageous medal-winning skier Picabo Street, most Winter Olympians are not household names except, perhaps, in their own households. However, here are 10 athletes (or duos) who are capable of making...