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LaVigne, a Harvard varsity track member who took his senior year off to compete as a bobsledder in the Calgary Olympics, had his membership revoked nearly two weeks ago to make room for Chicago Bears' wide receiver Willie Gault...
...Harvard sledder complained that Gault, who was a world-class sprinter before playing football, hadn't been to Olympic trials and still didn't have good enough times to qualify. In interviews after his dismissal, LaVigne charged that Gault's addition to the team was part of "an arrangement" by the U.S. Bobsled Federation to bring media attention to the relatively-unknown winter sport...
...last week, the coach of the U.S. bobsled team said Gault was the swifter pusher. "We can only take 12 people to Calgary and Gault was the better pusher," said Jeffrey W. Jost...
...stranger twists in this year's Winter Olympics it was LaVigne--not Gault--who has been showered with media attention, although perhaps without the beneficial effects for the Bobsled Federation. LaVigne's story has been front-page fare for the New York Times Sports section, among others...
...Vigne, the wait finally ended yesterday. La Vigne, who thought he had made the team as a brakeman on the third U.S. sled, was removed last week in favor of professional football player Willie Gault. La Vigne was in the process of appealing his case to the United States Olympic Committee and the United States Bobsled Federation, but was reinstated yesterday as a non-competing athlete...