Word: goldens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...golden opportunity. Make that silver. Two days later their coach, Ron Ludington, the last American pairs medalist (bronze in 1960), summed up the free skating: "I'd call that walking right through the door, wouldn't you?" Wouldn't anybody? On the big night Valova and Vasiliev held their gold-medal lead on a more difficult program. Nurtured, like the Protopopovs, in the Leningrad school, they showed its hallmarks: coolly cerebral slow passages alternating with flashy jumps and lifts. But the performance of the young Soviet pair, Larisa Selezneva and Oleg Makarov, with whom the Carrutherses were...
...Flying Golden Snow...
...feel we've made some progress." Well, some ... She placed 18th in the 1980 giant slalom, but tangled with a gate in the first run at Sarajevo and was disqualified. Said Jin Xuefei, 20, also on the Chinese women's team (her name means "flying golden snow"): "Our aim at the Olympics is to study athletes from other countries, especially the American women." What of the future? The young women smiled. "Time," they say in unison, "drills holes in stones...
Following Challenger's spectacular homecoming, NASA too showed renewed faith in its machine. At week's end, it announced that the shuttle would take off again on April 4, in a record turnaround time of only 53 days. -By Frederic Golden. Reported by Jerry Hannifin/Kennedy Space Center and David S. Jackson/Houston...
Boston 125, Golden State...