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Although he is counted as a good prospect for a bronze medal, he is convincing when he says that competing, not winning, is his reward. Merely to be in the same race with the great Finnish sculler Pertti Karppinen, gold medalist in 1980 and the favorite this year, justifies all the training, says Biglow. Athletics for money, as a business? Biglow finds the concept distasteful. But, he knows, his case is special...
Before the Finnish border, the train jolted to a stop. I stood up, looked out the window and saw a swarm of uniformed custom officers surrounded and climb onto the train. This had happened upon entrance into Russia but still the experience remains numbing...
...project a reassuring image of vigor and strength. But as early as Andropov's appearance at the state reception following Brezhnev's funeral, many foreign dignitaries were struck by the telltale signs of frailty and age that belied his reputation for mental agility. During the visit of Finnish President Mauno Koivisto in June 1983, Andropov had to be helped to his seat at a Kremlin banquet. When the Soviet leader met with West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl the following month, his eyes were clear and alert, but his right hand visibly shook...
...their credit, Anchorman McKay and his colleagues rarely let the pressure show, and they made the most of what they had. Eric Heiden's commentary enabled viewers to appreciate subtle differences in style among the competitors in the women's speed skating. ABC compressed Finnish Gold Medalist Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen's 10-km cross-country ski race into a montage of snow-hazed spurts of ardent labor that made her final collapse seem an inevitable part of the effort. Hockey Commentator Al Michaels could probably inject excitement into a pinochle game...
gold in the sport. "Cokie," as the hard-driven Oregonian is known to teammates, astonished observers two Olympiads ago by winning America's first medal (a silver) in the Finnish-and Soviet-dominated event, but he unexpectedly quit a 1980 Olympic race, prompting complaints that he was an arrogant loner. He says he would rather be "an anonymous person...