Leading Off

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COLOR PHOTO: PHOTOGRAPH BY BOB MARTIN Snow's up, dude! Ross Rebagliati of Canada goes for the gold in the snowboarding giant slalom.

COLOR PHOTO: PHOTOGRAPH BY AL TIELEMANS Ice dream Canadian 5,000-meter speed skater Steven Elm seems frozen in an Olympic moment all his own.

COLOR PHOTO: PHOTOGRAPH BY AL TIELEMANS Sky walker Japan's Takehiro Sakamoto airs it out during the men's ski moguls.