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After Italian skiers Josef Polig and Gianfranco Martin finished 1-2 in the Alpine combined event, bumping a fourth-place Frenchman from the medal stand, French ski officials tried to have them disqualified on the grounds that the advertising on the winners' jackets was too large. Olympic officials declined to intervene, declaring, "Medals are won on the ground, not in offices...
...last June, when most other Olympic hopefuls were lashed into rigid training programs, Norwegian cross-country skier Vegard ("the Viking") Ulvang was hunkered down somewhere in central Greenland, pondering the vexing little problem of survival. He and his best friend, Frenchman Pierre Gay- % Peret, had set out seven days before to ski 355 miles across the world's largest island. Though the speediest previous crossing by their chosen route had been 25 days, they had brought enough food for just 20. "We wanted to go fast," explains Ulvang. But their pace during the first week had been crabbed...
...restaurant, or have seen the Abu Dhabi princes enjoying the attentions of a Brazilian waitress down the street, while Biancas and Andys swapped kisses in the Dakota Rock Bar. "The T-bone steak is with French fries and Mexican beans?" demanded a Nordic athlete of an Elvis-impersonating Frenchman, while the American at the next table, a drug tester, remarked wryly, "Yes, Ben Johnson really put doping...
...Robert Gallo of the NIH over who had first identified the AIDS virus raised public doubts about the motives and credibility of scientists. Those concerns remained when Gallo conceded that through inadvertent contamination, the virus he identified had been isolated from a sample sent him by the Frenchman. Last week the journal Science revealed that a draft of a forthcoming NIH report about the affair criticizes Gallo and accuses one of his colleagues of scientific misconduct...
...that Leyraud must be set free within 48 hours or security forces would go door-to-door, raiding homes to find him. Shortly after the raids began, Lebanon's National News Agency reported on Sunday that Leyraud had been freed. An anonymous caller said the kidnappers had released the Frenchman to promote efforts to gain freedom for Lebanese prisoners held in Israel...