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...speedskating, Gaetan Boucher, winner of two golds and a bronze, led Canada in song. Counting a silver medal won in Lake Placid (a second to Heiden, nearly as good as a gold), Boucher is the most successful Olympian in his country's history. "Keep going, I told my legs in the 1500," he said. "I started hurting at 300 meters. It was strictly guts." Canadians had invested meager hope in their hockey team, which lost 16 times in 19 exhibition games leading up to the Olympics, including...
...then a tippy practice run, four happy men led by Jeff Jost rode U.S.A. I to fifth place, behind G.D.R. I, G.D.R. II, Swiss I and Swiss II, and ahead of both Russian "cigarskis." While the U.S. took less glory and spread it around better (in 1980, Speedskater Eric Heiden was the only individual champion), the Winter Games continue to be something of a match race between East Germany and the U.S.S.R. A pretty good team unto themselves, four comely East German women, especially Karin Enke and Andrea Schöne, shared most of the speedskating podiums and nine medals...
...parent of young speed skaters, I was angered by your comment that speed skating is an obscure sport and "Heiden, the greatest speed skater in history-and an American-has flashed through without leaving a trace." Eric Heiden chose to excel in a sport that demands grace and strength, instead of one like hockey, which can be brutal and violent. I am proud that my children chose to emulate...
...their credit, Anchorman McKay and his colleagues rarely let the pressure show, and they made the most of what they had. Eric Heiden's commentary enabled viewers to appreciate subtle differences in style among the competitors in the women's speed skating. ABC compressed Finnish Gold Medalist Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen's 10-km cross-country ski race into a montage of snow-hazed spurts of ardent labor that made her final collapse seem an inevitable part of the effort. Hockey Commentator Al Michaels could probably inject excitement into a pinochle game...
...Heiden, the greatest speed skater in history?and an American?has flashed through without leaving a trace. Dianne Holum, the coach of the 18-member speed-skating team, a four-time Olympic medalist herself, laments, "You would hope that after Eric's success the sport would grow. The disappointment is the realization now that it will never happen." The Olympic speed-skating team is in some disarray, quarreling over coaching methods. Several of the male skaters continue to follow defrocked Coach Bob Corby, who offended some of the women by his concern for their weight. Furnished...