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Senior Correspondent William Rademaekers and Reporter Gertraud Lessing mushed after the Alpine skiers, while Eastern Europe Bureau Chief John Moody found himself learning all he could about the new Soviet bobsled. Atlanta Correspondent B.J. Phillips is an expert on figure skating, but last week she drew on her experience in...
Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen took a record three individual golds and a team bronze in cross-country for Finland. East and West Germans held forth generally in their luges and bobs. With $10,000, Americans made a hot last-minute purchase, picking up Switzerland'...
They had never sent a bobsled team to the Olympics before, yet at Sarajevo the Soviets not only showed up with a squad of twelve formidably well-drilled musclemen, but were instantly serious contenders for a medal. Kibitzers buzzed all week over the reason: three radically designed sleds that were...
The Soviets persisted. A mysterious knuckle joint in the sled's suspension was said to make up for some of the stiffness of the one-piece body. "It's a good sled," one member of their team said last week, and then added, with a grin, "when it...
...really. The East Germans, who have dominated bobsledding for the past several years, had quietly made some innovations of their own, notably a highly stable independent front suspension on a fairly conventional-looking sled, and their superb No. 2 team of Wolfgang Hoppe and Dietmar Schauerhammer took the gold medal Saturday. Another East German bob took the silver medal. The Soviets and one of their cigarskis won the bronze, however. For their team and all the others (including the Americans, who dragged in a dreary 15th), the next move was back to the drawing board. It is a good...