1.   A number of people involved in the plot were captured, charged and convicted, but Lund, a dashing former world champion freestyle skier, vanished.

2.   Regine Cavagnoud, the French champion skier who was gravely injured in a training accident earlier this week, died on Wednesday, doctors said.

3.   Other candidates include the former head of the Green Party, Heidi Hautala, and former world champion skier Marjo Matikainen-Kallstrom.

4.   A police report filed Monday by free-lance photographer Guido Picchio accuses the champion skier of ordering two nightclub bouncers to destroy the film of Tomba and his new girlfriend.

5.   Olympic champion Alpine skiers Finn Christian Jagge says he now was paying his own training costs, which could become a regular expense if the federation collapses.

6.   Olympic champion skier Hans Petter Buraas suffered a career-threatening neck injury in alpine training and has undergone an operation, his coach said Wednesday.

7.   Olympic and World Cup champion skier Hermann Maier was in stable condition Saturday after seven hours of surgery for injuries from a career-threatening motorcycle accident.

8.   The most famous French face was that of Jean-Claude Killy, a former champion skier.