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VANCOUVER OLYMPICS
30 Alpine Skiing
Behind Lindsey Vonn (left) and Bode Miller, Team USA was king of the mountain
BY TIM LAYDEN
36 Figure Skating
Evan Lysacek upset the status quo by winning the gold medal without a quadruple jump
BY E.M. SWIFT
38 Snowboarding
Hannah Teter (left) and Shaun White helped extend America's dominance in the halfpipe
BY AUSTIN MURPHY
42 Speedskating
Shani Davis won another gold, but not the one he wanted most
BY ALEXANDER WOLFF
• Crazy about Apolo Ohno
46 Skicross
Daron Rahlves didn't medal in the new event, but its reckless nature made him feel alive
BY SELENA ROBERTS
48 Hockey
A grieving Brian Burke stayed true to the U.S. team he forged and to the son he recently lost
BY MICHAEL FARBER
51 Fringe Athletes
Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong and other marginal Olympians believe they belong
BY S.L. PRICE
Departments
4 Leading Off
12 Letters
14 Scorecard
Assessing Tiger Woods's apology
20 Just My Type
Steve Nash on Winter Games, Suns
by Dan Patrick
23 Faces in the Crowd
24 Inside ...
• College Basketball
Fearsome Richmond
• Golf
Flashy Ian Poulter
• The NBA
Trade winners, losers
72 The Vault
Miracle on Ice, 1980
76 Point After
Why no Olympic ski jump for women?
By Phil Taylor
Features
54 | NBA
New Jersey Nets
They're awful but not hopeless—and might even have a bright future
By Joe Posnanski
58 | NCAA HOOPS
Foreign Players
Imports are becoming as valuable to college teams as the top U.S. recruits
By Luke Winn
62 | BASEBALL
Seattle Mariners
By concentrating on run prevention, they may win the AL West
By Albert Chen
ON THE COVER U.S. Alpine skiing medalists, photographed by Simon Bruty
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BOB MARTIN (AMMANN)
Simon Ammann of Switzerland won the large-hill ski jump last Saturday, the fourth gold medal of his career.
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BOB MARTIN (TETER)
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NANCIE BATTAGLIA (VONN)
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HEINZ KLUETMEIER (LYSACEK)
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HEINZ KLUETMEIER (DAVIS)
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DAMIAN STROHMEYER (BURKE)
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GUY RHODES/US PRESSWIRE (RAHLVES)
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ACTION IMAGES/ZUMAPRESS.COM (NKRUMAH-ACHEAMPONG)
