Word: golds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...GOLD IN THE PURLIEUS...
...lead of Sweden's 31- year-old Ingemar Stenmark, greatest male skier of his time, would hold up in the snow-blurred second run of the men's slalom. Then the astonishing Tomba, third after the first run, swiveled down the course to first place and his second gold, ahead of West Germany's Frank Woerndl and another elderly gent, Liechtenstein's 30-year-old Paul Frommelt. Stenmark slipped to fifth. What now for La Bomba, two Ferraris? How do you say vroom-vroom in Italian...
...left? That is one of many intriguing questions left unanswered. Since gross income from investments is put at $29 million, however, the Vatican's holdings in stocks, real estate and other assets can be projected to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. There are also substantial gold reserves, though their size may be exaggerated...
...Canadian hockey teams, with their scattering of N.H.L. pros, college players and European-league veterans, are scarcely amateur in the classic sense. But in Olympic play, even these hodgepodge squads are dinosaurs on ice. After the Americans' seventh-place finish and the Canadians' drubbing, 5-0, by the gold-bound Soviets, North American hockey officials were dismayed. Sighs Father David Bauer, patriarch of Team Canada: "If the American defense had only been better, it would have done so much for amateur hockey...
...Though she substituted a double jump for one of her five triples, Witt was firmly in command. Her beauty and charisma dominated, even as she lay outstretched on the ice in a pose of death. In the end, Witt's was indisputably the Carmen of choice. By taking the gold, Witt became the second woman ever to secure consecutive Olympic figure-skating titles...