Word: heiden
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sports were characterized by what the players wore, a lot of them would have disappeared long ago. What is so at tractive about those--whatever they are--that wrestlers wear? What about the blue Lost-in-Space costume Eric Heiden blitzed around in at Lake Placid? If all sports with strange uniforms were outflawed, the only one left would be polo. Oh yes, and probably the Lady Dolphins...
...Eric Heiden, 22, does not mince words about his pet peeves. "I hate New York," says the Wisconsin-born Olympic speed skater. "If you don't walk ten miles an hour there, you're run over." Same goes for Manhattan's Central Park: "In Madison, it would be condemned." Nor is the winner of five gold medals fond of being a celebrity: "If I wanted to become famous, I would have stuck to hockey." As for all the commercial offers he rejects: "I don't want to have to go places to keep appointments...
Although you summed up the events of 1980 fairly well, you failed to include Speed Skater Eric Heiden. With the five gold medals he won at Lake Placid, Heiden is a source of pride for America...
...Neil Leifer, who took this week's cover portrait of Alabama Football Coach Paul W. ("Bear") Bryant and the pictures accompanying the story, should be familiar to TIME'S readers: this is the fifth cover he has shot this year. The others: Olympic Skaters Eric and Beth Heiden, Tennis Superstar Bjorn Borg and the political portraits from this summer's Republican and Democratic conventions...
...Beth Heiden's skates may be bronze, but her ten-speed is golden. At least that is the way it looked after the 20-year-old blade and bike speedster finished first in the women's world cycling championships in Sallanches, France. Beth, who placed third in the women's 3,000-meter speed-skating competition at the Lake Placid Winter Olympics, began bicycle racing only three summers ago, along with her quintuple-gold-medalist brother Eric, 22, as a way of keeping in condition for skating. Now she enjoys the sport as an end in itself...