Baxter has Wheel to Win Off Piste That Is Not to Be Sniffed at [Scot Region]

Daily MailOctober 30, 2009

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REGARDLESS of whether you regard Alain Baxter's injudicious dalliance with a Vicks inhaler in 2002 as an act of carelessness or a travesty of justice, one thing is certain. The events that engulfed Baxter like an avalanche at the Salt Lake Winter Olympics changed the Highlander's life forever.

Had he, for example, not been stripped of his slalom bronze medal, and all the fame and fortune which would have accompanied it, would he now be contemplating a new career as a competitive cyclist? The answer, you suspect, is not blowing in some hillside wind.

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Baxter has Wheel to Win Off Piste That Is Not to Be Sniffed at [Scot Region]

Becoming the first British skier to win an Olympic Alpine medal would, with astute exploitation of that status, have propelled Baxter into the s financial fast lane. Instead, having been guilty of no greater a crime th...

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