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.

Phil and Steve Mahre    ALPINE SKIING

Olympic Highlights: Gold and silver, respectively, in slalom in 1984

Phil (left) and Steve: U.S. skiing’s dynamic duo. Carl Yarbrough

Phil Mahre never will forget Feb. 19, 1984. It was on that day, on Sarajevo's Mount Bjelasnica, as Mahre was heading to the podium to accept his gold medal in the slalom, that he learned that his wife, Holly, had given birth to their son, Alexander, 6,000 miles away, in Scottsdale, Ariz. "I couldn't tell you the date of any win I've ever had with the exception of that one," says Mahre. "My son's birthday reminds me of the gold medal, not the other way around." Then Phil climbed atop the victory stand next to his twin brother, Steve, who had taken the silver. "At least Phil kept the gold in the family," says Steve.

The first family of U.S. skiing hoarded plenty of hardware. Phil earned a silver in the slalom in Lake Placid in 1980, along with three overall World Cup titles, the only ones ever won by a U.S. male. Steve, meanwhile, was the first U.S. male to win a world championship when he took the giant slalom in 1982. Both Mahres, now 44, retired from competition soon after Sarajevo, but they have kept their edges in the sport, operating a ski school in Keystone, Colo., working on product development for Volant and mentoring up-and-coming racers in the U.S. ski program. That has left summers free, when the brothers return to their homes within 10 miles of each other outside Yakima, Wash. The three-time Olympians are in Salt Lake City this fortnight to renew old friendships. "Once you're an Olympian," says Phil, "you're always an Olympian."

—Pete McEntegart