But Mullen decided to make the trip anyway, to cheer on his teammates. Asked how he was feeling, a big smile broke across his face. After the German star took the lead in the first run of the men's singles Sunday, the United States and Canada unsuccessfully protested the new booties that he and other German racers wore. Spokesman Sandy Caligiore told Nagano '98, the games' official newspaper, that Hackl probably would have done well even if he'd worn snowshoes. He's just that kind of racer.
Japan is the only country against which atomic bombs have been used.
The U.S. dropped the weapons on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Dionne, a pusher on the No. 3 four-man sled, was moved out of the Olympic Village and into a downtown hotel by the U.S. Olympic Committee, which gave him an official's credential so he could watch the Games. It said he could keep his uniform but was no longer on the squad. Dionne, of Alpharetta, Ga., had asked the International Council for Arbitration in Sports to overturn his three-month suspension, imposed after a World Cup meet in Calgary last November, because he had taken the drug ephedrine accidentally as part of a cold medicine. Arbitrator Jan Paulsson, a French attorney, said the suspension must stand even though he accepted Dionne's contention of inadvertent use.