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Show McKinney Wins!!! Oh, to be 20 and the best female ski racer on Earth. That's the situation for Tammara McKinney, who last week at Vail, Colo., became the first American woman to ever win the overall World Cup ski championship. She did it with style, winning her third straight giant slalom race. She has eliminated her biggest rival, Erika Hess of Switzerland by making it impossible for Hess to best McKinney in a tiebreaker situation, which could occur based on the outcome of this week's final races in Japan. McKinney has six wins this season, Hess three and that's the difference. The stunning news followed follow-ed by a week the news that Phil Mahre had also won the men's cup, his third straight. Years and years of American Ameri-can catching up, the junior racing programs, the dedicated dedi-cated parents, coaches, volunteers vo-lunteers and the like have done what has never been done before: indisputably placed the United States at the top of the world in Alpine skiing. ' McKinney had to win the racetri Vail to take the cup. VI Tamara McKinney have done it. Following her second run, she was first. But Cindy Nelson scorched the course for the U.S." displacing Hess. The door was open for McKinney, who roared through the gates on the semi-soft hill to finish first. According to people who journeyed from Utah to watch the race, spectators went wild when they saw that McKinney had the race locked. But the stunning news that she had done what no American woman had ever done, winning the World Cup, reportedly sent the town into a huge celebration. There ought to be more World Cup races ', on ,-UvSji |