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Article: Baxter leaps into medal driving seat; Winter Olympics.(Sport)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- February 25, 2002
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Byline: MARK STANIFORTH in Salt Lake City
EIGHT DAYS after breaking both his skis in a scary training accident which ruled him out of the giant slalom, Alain Baxter became Britain's firstever Olympic alpine medallist.
Suddenly Baxter's years of living out of the back of a Volkswagen Passat and spending tens of thousands of pounds of his own money trawling the World Cup circuit have been repaid in emphatic fashion.
His bronze in the men's slalom will make the 28-year-old 'Highlander' an instant celebrity; the great blue-haired leader whom future generations of British skiers will seek to emulate.
Baxter grew up with no such hero. The ...