Word: finlandized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exactly your leisure-class schedule, but it has been the road to the top for 18-year-old Kriistina Wegelius, in Boston this week for her first appearance in Eliot House's Jimmy Fund benefit, An Evening With Champions. Since she left her home in Helsinki, Finland three years ago to begin intensive training in Denver, Colo, Tintti, as her friends call her, has lived the life of an ice skating addict...
...come to America for ice skating when you live in a country like Finland...
Simple, Tintti says. "There still isn't much figure skating in Finland. Hockey is the big sport there. It's like football in America, and it takes up all the ice time...
...since the 1976 Olympics, the lone member of the 1978 Finnish World Team has immersed herself in practice. She writes for a skating magazine in Finland and does some exhibitions during her short trips back to Helsinki, trying to promote the sport to her countrymen; but in pursuit of a spot on the 1980 Finnish Olympic team, Tintti can afford little time away from...
...know why the Americans and Russians are so good?" she asks. "The countries are so big and they have so many good skaters you can just pick the best. In Finland we only have one or two to choose from...