The Sports Illustrated Olympic Daily is published in Salt Lake City and available in event venues and on newsstands for 16 straight days during the 2002 Winter Games. Here are some sights and scenes from today’s edition.

Sheila Young    SPEED SKATING

Olympic Highlights: Took home a full set of medals in 1976, earning gold in the 500 meters, silver in the 1,500 and bronze in the 1,000

A triple medalist in '76, Young (now Ochowicz) has a rooting interest in these Games. Gerry Gropp

Twenty-six years after she became the first American to win three medals at a Winter Games, Young, 51, has returned to the Olympics for competitive reasons. She's Sheila Ochowicz now, and her 18-year-old daughter, Elli, will be skating tonight in the 500 meters for the United States. "It's nerve-racking," Ochowicz says about being a spectator. "I know how Elli feels, but there's nothing that I can do. It makes me wacko."

In the 1970s Ochowicz was one of the finest amateur athletes on the planet. She won three world championships in speed skating and three in sprint cycling, including titles in both sports in the year of her Olympic triumph. (She did not compete at the Summer Games because women's cycling wasn't an Olympic sport until 1984.) Ochowicz won her last world cycling crown in '81 and hung up her skates in '82. "In some ways I understand people who compete into their 30s," she says, "but there are other things in life."

Ochowicz, who taught elementary physical education in the Milwaukee area for 13 years, now lives in Menlo Park, Calif., with her husband, Jim, and their 13-year-old son, Alex; the couple has a second daughter, Kate, 24. All are in Salt Lake City. "I'm looking forward to seeing old friends and watching the sport I love," Ochowicz says. "I've truly been blessed."

—Mark Beech