1.   Eberharter agreed that the competition for spots on the Austrian team is intense.

2.   For the Burn, Eck will play alongside Mexican forward Hugo Sanchez, an allocated player scheduled back from his Austrian team early this summer.

3.   He was in excellent condition in August when he returned home after a three-week training trip to Chile with the rest of the Austrian team.

4.   His comments after the race give a glimpse into the competitive heart of the Austrian team.

5.   It was this system that the Austrian team succeeded in verifying.

6.   It was left for the Austrian team to reassert some semblance of order on a capricious day on the slopes.

7.   Lasse Kjus of Norway was second, Andrzej Bachleda of Poland third and another member of the powerful Austrian team, Christian Mayer, was fourth.

8.   Maier is the former bricklayer who was left off the Austrian team as a teenager because of bad knees and general weakness.

9.   Maier leads an Austrian team that has dominated the World Cup circuit this year as no other team in the last half-century.

10.   Since last summer when the team began working out earlier than most on the glacial snow, word began trickling out of camp that the Austrian team was special.