November, 2000 Media Contact: Rose Abello

 

Women to Watch

Team Croatia

Janica Kostelic [koss-TELL-itch] - (Jan. 5, 1982)...3 world Cup wins...this tall (5-10), talented teen is coming back after ligament and meniscus damage to her right knee last December in St. Moritz when she was leading the World Cup after making a rapid adjustment to the short-ski phenomenon which swept gate-running events last season...in just her second year racing World Cups, Kostelic had set fire to the first part of the tour, winning a pair of slaloms (Serre Chevalier and Sestriere) and posting three other top-6 results when she went down in training...as she grows older, she’s expected to become an even stronger four-event skier...



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