MONDAY’S WEATHER
Party cloudy with highs between 35 and 40 degrees. As the sun goes down the lows will be in the teens.
MONDAY’S ATHLETE
Picabo Street
Downhill skiing, U.S.
After campaigning unsuccessfully to be the U.S. flag bearer, Picabo Street actually settles down to the business at hand. Considered a long shot in Monday’s women’s downhill, Street posted the fastest practice run Saturday. She is a two-time Olympic and three-time world championship medalist, which makes her a factor.
MONDAY’S TV
Noon-5 p.m.
MSNBC: Biathlon (women’s 15k, men’s 20k), men’s curling (U.S.
vs. Sweden), women’s hockey (Canada vs. Kazakstan)
3 p.m.-4 p.m.
NBC: Luge (men’s singles), snowboarding (men’s halfpipe)
5 p.m.-11 p.m.
CNBC: Men’s curling (U.S. vs. Canada), men’s hockey (Ukraine vs. Switzerland, Belarus vs. France)
7 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
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NBC: Alpine skiing (women’s downhill), figure skating (pairs long program), luge (men’s singles final), snowboarding (men’s halfpipe final), speedskating (men’s 500m)
11:05 p.m.-12:35 a.m.
NBC: Daily roundup
Midnight-6 a.m.
MSNBC: Taped coverage
12:35 a.m.-4 a.m.
NBC: Taped coverage
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?
Ingemar Stenmark
Swedish alpine skier
Ingemar Stenmark was never much for the public life.
Stenmark took up skiing, he once said, because “It was a thing I could do alone.”
According to David Wallechinsky in his “The Complete Book of the Winter Olympics,” Stenmark wrote a school essay when he was 10 on “How I See My Future.” In the essay, Stenmark said he wanted to be a ski racer. His teacher told him his dream was unrealistic.
Since Stenmark retired in 1989 as the greatest technical skier in history, apparently that teacher was wrong. He won 86 races in World Cup competition.
At the 1980 Lake Placid Games, despite having sustained a major concussion during a downhill practice run that had left him foaming at the mouth and in spasms only five months earlier, Stenmark was a double gold medalist. He won the slalom and giant slalom–coming from behind on both second runs. His concession to the concussion was to skip the downhill.
Stenmark, who turns 46 next month, has lived a quiet life since his retirement. He splits time between Sweden and Monte Carlo. He works for a Japanese clothing company and “skis for fun a little bit.”