61.   Norwegians Kjetil Andre Aamodt and Lasse Kjus have made the combined event their personal playground all season.

62.   Results in the combined event are an aggregate of the downhill and two slalom runs.

63.   She was the overwhelming favorite in the combined event and the slalom at the world championship last week in St. Anton, Austria.

64.   Running the slalom gives Ertl the opportunity to collect extra points in the combined event as well.

65.   Seizinger, who won the gold medal in the downhill on Monday, posted the fastest time in the downhill portion of the combined event later that same day.

66.   She also crashed in the slalom portion of the combined event at St. Anton.

67.   Shaffer passed a major maturity hurdle last year when she finished ninth in the combined event of the Winter Olympics.

68.   She previously won a Super-G and a combined event.

69.   She then fell in the first slalom run of the combined event, in which she was considered a medal contender.

70.   She had two second-place finishes in the combined event that carries much less prestige than the super G.