'94 WINTER OLYMPICS / LILLEHAMMER : Notebook

‘94 WINTER OLYMPICS / LILLEHAMMER : Notebook

By CHRIS DUFRESNE

Feb. 21, 1994 12 AM PT

LILLEHAMMER, Norway —

American Monique Pelletier, a slalom specialist with little experience in speed events, took her best shot in the downhill segment of the women’s combined.

She finished 24th.

“I don’t care,” the 24-year-old from Mt. Hood, Ore., said. “I’m down the mountain, that’s all that counts.”

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Chris Dufresne

Chris Dufresne was the Los Angeles Times’ national college football/basketball columnist from 1995 to 2015. He also covered skiing at the Winter Olympics and wrote extensively on most sports. He is a multiple national award winner and was named 2011 California Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportswriters and Sportscasters Assn. A Los Angeles native, he started at The Times in 1976 as a truck loader and literally worked his way up (two floors to be exact).

‘94 WINTER OLYMPICS / LILLEHAMMER : Notebook

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