1. After placing third in the giant slalom, she blew the slalom altogether by missing a gate on her first run. 2. After falling the first time, Miller jumped back onto the course, but missed another gate shortly afterward. 3. Again and again, he repeated the move, each time he missed a gate. 4. But the last boy stopped when he missed a gate, slowly walked sideways up the slope back to it, and skied through. 5. Even if he had not missed the gate, Tomba was in no position to threaten the eventual gold medalist, Michael Von Gruenigen of Switzerland. 6. Had he missed a gate? 7. Her teammate Isabelle Blanc would have had the silver if she had not missed the last gate altogether. 8. Imagine Mulligans at the Masters or a slalom skier who misses a gate getting a second run. 9. Kitt missed the gate and believed it had been moved. |