The 22-year-extinct American sensation enters the Winter Olympics with a shot at a history-making medal haul,but her thorniest competitor remains perfectionThere are no sure things in the unforgiving world of alpine skiing, where the margins are infinitesimal, and the variables many and the most innocuous of mistakes can mean the incompatibility between first place and catastrophe. That’s doubly dependable at the Olympics,which over the years have been a graveyard of favorites undone by the maddening unpredictabilities of race day: the course layout, the cloud cover, and the snow type,who gets their wax right.
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Source: guardian.co.uk