
The Fall Line
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"Great sports writing. . . . [Vinton] is taking us inside a world few ever visit.”—James Hill, Washington Post
Harnessing nature's most powerful forces, elite downhillers descend icy, rugged slopes at speeds cresting 90 miles per hour. For decades, American skiers struggled to match their European counterparts, and until this century the US Ski Team could not claim a lasting foothold on the roof of the Alps, where the sport's legends are born.
Then came a fledgling class of American racers that disrupted the Alpine racing world order. Led by Bode Miller and Lindsey Vonn, Julia Mancuso and Ted Ligety, this band of iconoclasts made a place for their country on some of the world's most prestigious race courses. Even as new technology amplified the sport's inherent danger, the US Ski Team learned how to win, and they changed downhill racing forever.
The Fall Line is the story of how it all came together, a deeply reported reconstruction of ski racing's most dramatic season. Drawing on more than a decade of research and candid interviews with some of the sport's most elusive figures, award-winning journalist Nathaniel Vinton reveals the untold story of how skiers like Vonn and Miller, and their peers and rivals, fought for supremacy at the Olympic Winter Games.
Here is an authoritative portrait of a group of men and women taking mortal risks in a bid for sporting glory. A white-knuckled tour through skiing's deep traditions and least-accessible locales, The Fall Line opens up the sexy, high-stakes world of downhill skiing—its career-ending crashes, million-dollar sponsorship deals, international intrigue, and showdowns with nature itself.
With views from the starting gate, the finish line, and treacherous turns in between, The Fall Line delivers the adrenaline of one of the world's most beautiful and perilous sports alongside a panoramic view of skiing's past, present, and future.
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- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction: The Fall Line
- Part 1: One Year Out (March-April 2009)
- Chapter 1: Crossroads
- Chapter 2: The Showcase Athlete
- Chapter 3: The Crash Pilot
- Chapter 4: An American Dynasty
- Chapter 5: Live Free or Die
- Chapter 6: The Blueprint
- Chapter 7: The Cruelest Month
- Part 2: Training Days (May-October 2009)
- Chapter 8: Taking Wing
- Chapter 9: Working the Angles
- Chapter 10: Coming in from the Cold
- Chapter 11: Back to Work
- Part 3: The White Circus: The 2009-10 World Cup (October 2009-February 2010)
- Chapter 12: A New Beginning
- Chapter 13: Pure Speed
- Chapter 14: Rivals
- Chapter 15: Almost Famous
- Chapter 16: Blood and Guts
- Chapter 17: Coming and Going
- Chapter 18: The Hills Are Alive
- Chapter 19: Ebersoluble
- Chapter 20: Varieties of Religious Experience
- Chapter 21: The Final Schuss
- Part 4: Gold Rush: The 2010 Winter Olympics (February 2010)
- Chapter 22: Faster, Higher, Wetter
- Chapter 23: The Waiting Game
- Chapter 24: The Medal Table
- Chapter 25: Road to Sochi
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Sources
- Index
- Praise for THE FALL LINE
- Copyright
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