Word: czechoslovakias
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Romania vs. Czechoslovakia is not the game we wanted to see. In fact, it is the game almost no one in the arena has bought tickets for. But the Official Olympic Ticket Committee misprinted about 400 tickets, leading many United States vs. Norway fans into the wrong arena at the right time. The police guarding the door to the right rink turn spectators away sternly, repeating, "I'm sorry, there's nothing we can do about it." They are authoritarian clones, faceless and infuriating among all the hope and faith. "Go to the Chamber of Commerce," is another...
...Olympic Committee has screwed today." The words are sacrilege in a way, jolting the spirit of the spectators within hearing distance, choosing to believe the ticket mess-up is an accident. Most people take the guard's cynicism as a joke, laughing all the way to the Romania-Czechoslovakia face...
...Czechoslovakia-Romania ice hockey contest the day before, an initially uninterested crowd grew more and more involved as the "Romanians fell further and further behind. "If they can score, you can," the excited spectators shouted to the oblivious Romanians players...
Whatever the fate of this summer's Moscow Games, the winter competition seems secure. All told, 37 countries will send athletes to the Games: the downhill demons and slalom masters from Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy and France; the hockey magicians from the Soviet Union, Canada, Czechoslovakia and Sweden; the spectacular speed skaters from East Germany and the U.S.S.R.; high-flying figure skaters from Britain and Russia; the ski jumpers from any country with athletes crazy and courageous enough to think they can hurtle off a 257-ft. tower and land without breaking every bone in their bodies. And in most...
...over Canada, and was equally brilliant in a 3-2 victory over the Soviets. The U.S. players needed a victory in their final game against Czechoslovakia to win their first hockey gold medal. Behind 4-3 after two frustrating periods, they were visited in their dressing room by the Soviet team captain, who urged them to take oxygen. With Roger Christian of Minnesota firing in three goals (he scored four on the day), the Americans roared back in the final period to win, 9-4. "The big joke," McCartan recalls, "was that the guys who didn't take...