"She doesn't believe in taking a vacation whenshe's in training," he added.

This is not the first time Whyte has trainedfor the Olympics. She had her eyes on theLillehammer Olympics in 1994, but was disappointedwhen women's ice hockey was not included among theevents.

Even this year, Stone said, Whyte was not 100percent sure she would make it.

"Sandra was not cocky by any means," Stonesaid. "She knew that it was going to come down tothe wire and she was going to put herself in thebest possible position to be selected, but thereis always the outside chance that she would notmake it. She just tried to cover all the baseswith her training."

The women's ice hockey games have alreadybegun. Team USA beat China 5-0, Sweden 7-1,Finland 4-2, Japan 10-0 and Canada 7-4 lastSaturday. The team will again face the Canadianteam--whom Edward Whyte describes as USA's biggestrival--today for the gold medal.

The two-man bobsled event took place lastweekend. Herberich finished seventh overall. Thefour-man event takes place this Friday andSaturday