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ALBERTVILLE, France -- "Hey, Sam.""Yeah, Frank?""Pass the beer." * "Hey, Dmitri.""Da, Igor?""Pass the ...

ALBERTVILLE, France -- One jump. One jump. It plays on the mind. One jump. Gotta hit it. One jump. God, let me hit it! The audience can be clapping, the music blaring, filling the arena, violins and kettle drums cascading down to the ice, where the skater glides along in her sequined outfit, big smile, arms out, looking for all the world like Julie Andrews on the hill in "The Sound Of Music." But in her mind there is only one sound, one voice, one screaming order from the storm trooper in the brain. One jump! One jump!"Hit it! Hit it! Hit it! Hit it!"

ALBERTVILLE, France -- One jump. One jump. One jump. It plays on the mind like a sharpened skate blade dragged ...

REPORTER: "Why did you arrive by helicopter?"TOMBA: "Because everyone else drove."VAL D'ISERE, France -- When we ...

MERIBEL, France -- I am looking for an enemy.I am taking applications. I am knocking on doors. I am walking ...

LA PLAGNE, France -- I rarely go to bobsled races, because I can see the same thing at a bank robbery. Two guys in masks come running out, jump in a vehicle, duck and drive away. Big deal.But I did attend the Olympic bobsled race Sunday, because certain circumstances demanded it, such as national interest, and the fact that if I didn't go to bobsled, I had to go to figure skating, in which the ice dancerswere scheduled to do The Original Mandatory Program, which this year is . . . the polka! I am not making this up. Roll out . . . the barrel!Also, Herschel Walker.

MERIBEL, France -- There I was, going down the mountain, when I bumped into the entire Indian Olympic team.Both of them."Where's the rest?" I asked the two skiers."Hello, yes," they said."No, no. The rest of your team. What happened? Miss plane? Bus go off cliff?""Hello, yes," they said.

ALBERTVILLE, France -- Leave the kid alone. That's what we should do. Let Dan Jansen skate around that ice track ...