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What a cover photograph! Never before have my eyes enjoyed such a pure quintessence in harmony, reality, perfection and effort as shown in the picture of Eric and Beth Heiden...
...Heiden 's golden hoard and a hockey upset highlight the Lake Placid Games...
...some way, gain their support from it, either as students in Western countries or as "soldiers" in Eastern ones. And when the most successful of these athletes can look forward to special rewards after their playing days are over, like the Kellogg's advertising contract awaiting skater Eric Heiden, then they are pros in all but name. This cannot be a reason to save the Games either...
...Beth Heiden was less fortunate in the 1500 meters. She had won the World Championship in 1979 and the event was one of her best, but a series of irritants nagged her. It was snowing, for one thing, and she was slated to go first, something skaters hate to do. The ice is always colder-and therefore slower-before it is worked over by the competitors. Worse, the first racer out on the course has to set her own pace. Still, these were all minor annoyances compared to the fact that she had sprained her ankle the previous weekend. Oddly...
...Heiden got a good start, but she obviously was beginning to fade in the final third of the race. Her stroking, normally so brisk and efficient, seemed choppy and strained. It was like watching a finely tuned machine run out of lubricant and start to seize up. When it was over, she said she had expected to finish about sixth. Then she added in her chirpy little kid's voice: "You can get pretty nervous thinking about what people expect. But then you say, 'Hey, it's only two and a half minutes out of my life...