1.   Austrian skiers won more than half of the World Cup races last year and nearly half of the medals at the world championships in Vail last February.

2.   No other Alpine skier has won as many Olympic medals as Aamodt, who had been tied with Tomba, Vreni Schneider and Katja Seizinger at five.

3.   Skiers won again.

4.   From then on, however, it was downhill all the way, with no U.S. skier winning a medal.

5.   Last season the soft-spoken Swiss skier won five World Cup giant slalom events.

6.   No American skier has won three Olympic medals.

7.   So far this year, no American male skier has won a World Cup race.

8.   The American skier won the Cortina downhill last year and placed second in another on the same track.

9.   The American skier won the Cortina downhill last year and placed second in another.

10.   The powerful Norwegian skier won the opening individual World Cup event at Beitostolen and added points through his eighth place in Milan.