Word: cupfuls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...driven by political, nationalistic or commercial pressures." At the age of 20, with his best years just ahead, Phil Mahre (pronounced mare) is already the finest American male skier in history, a solid gold-medal prospect for the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, N.Y. As the World Cup competition ends this week in Arosa, Switzerland, Mahre is second only to Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark, 22, who has won the overall championship three years...
...dozen to 14. "With that kind of organizational and financial stability," says Alpine Ski Team Director Hank Tauber, "I can finally lay out ten-month racing and training programs and prepare younger racers as well." This year the American team trails only those of Austria and Switzerland in World Cup points, a heady jump from a seventh-place finish one year...
...World Cup competition, ski racing's big league, is a 22-event road show that stretches from Stratton, Vt., to Vald'Isère, France; a traveling extravaganza complete with glamour and groupies, danger and drama. The life-style is a world away from what goes on back in Phil Mahre's home town of White Pass, nestled in the Cascade Mountains. Its total population is 27, and nine belong to the Mahre household, including Steve, Phil's twin, who is himself a promising member of the U.S. ski team...
Washington never faced Harvard in a head-to-head meeting last year but the west-coast school did capture the 1977, elite eight Grand Challenge Cup at England's Royal Henley Regatta, in which the Irish National Squad kayoed the Crimson in Harvard's first race...
Penn did defeat Harvard last season, breaking the Crimson's 24-race, four-year victory streak by one-tenth of a second in the Adams Cup race here in May. However, Harvard avenged the loss at the Eastern Sprints in Princeton only one week later, stroking to victory by one length in the varsity finals...