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.

Carol Heiss Jenkins    FIGURE SKATING

Olympic Highlights: Gold medal in 1960; silver medal in 1956

Once a queen of the ice herself, Heiss Jenkins now coaches champions. David Liam Kyle

Forty-two years after she skated into our hearts in Squaw Valley, Heiss Jenkins is still sliding effortlessly over the ice. For the past three decades the 62-year-old has worked as a skating coach in suburban Ohio, nurturing such talents as Salt Lake bronze medalist Timothy Goebel, 1998 Olympic alternate Tonia Kwiatkowski and Heiss Jenkins's current star, 17-year-old Parker Pennington, the 2001 national junior champion and a good bet to make the 2006 Olympic team. "For me there's still something about skating, right down to the smell of the rink and the cold," says Heiss Jenkins, a five-time world champion (1956-60) and the first American woman to land a double Axel in competition. "Just being out there gliding around, it's wonderful." Following her Olympic triumph, Heiss married Hayes Jenkins, himself a gold medalist, in the men's skating competition at the 1956 Games in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. Like Sonja Henie before her, she headed for Hollywood and even starred in the 1961 film Snow White and the Three Stooges, a $3.5 million production that she says "was a wonderful experience." She and her husband eventually settled in Akron, where Hayes worked as a lawyer and the couple raised three children. (The brood now includes six grandchildren.) In 1999 they moved from Akron to nearby Westlake so Heiss Jenkins could be closer to her skating base, Lakewood's Winterhurst Ice Rink. "Being around young people keeps me young," says Heiss Jenkins. "I can't ask for a better job. I'll probably die with my skates on."

—Richard Deitsch