rather like paul newman and steve mcqueen with their racing car movie this have all the appearance of a jolly project for robert redford and a he get to ski up hill and down dale in the alpine sunshine . the story be as light a powdered snow with redford small town boy david chappellet ( what kind of lead name be that . ) who with his eye on the prize of olympic glory and get up the nose of and in no particular order and his coach and father and team mate . woman be a mere side show in his insular world a evidence by a fairly distasteful pick up scene with an old girlfriend in his hometown and then his selfishly petulant pursuit of and heaven above and a free thinking and independent woman and play by camilla sparv . the ski ing sequence be fine with some good stunt work involve numerous bump and scrape on the piste but their effectiveness be dim by our subsequent familiarity with top tv coverage of ski event down to the present day . plus i be not convince that the winter olympics have the same mass identification with the general public a the summer game so that when redford eventually win his gold medal in the final reel and i couldn not really be that excited for him one way or another . of the actor and redford and best profile forward and doesn not need to do much and indeed doesn not and while gene hackman do well with equally meagre material . ms sparv do well a the chief female interest well who treat redford the way he doubtless treat every other woman in his chauvinistic way . in truth though and there a lack of dramatic tension throughout for which the action sequence do not fully compensate and you do not care a fig for any of the lead character . one of those film where the actor probably enjoy make it more than the viewer do watch it .