Jimmy Heuga

The Xth Winter Olympic Games, opening in Grenoble next week, will find 2,300 athletes from 38 nations scrambling for 35 gold, 35 silver and 35 bronze medals. And while it is the skaters who have the best chance of...

Winning three races in the season's final week at Jackson Hole, Canada's Nancy Greene (above right) accepts congratulations from Marielle Goitschel, whom she beat to become the world's best girl skier

On successive weekends of U.S. racing, Jean-Claude Killy won seven out of seven races, bringing his season victories to 15 and establishing his position as the greatest skier the sport has produced

Canada's Nancy Greene rocked the European ski circuit by winning four big races and getting a fast start toward the new World Cup title. The U.S. girls contented themselves with the cute-kids award