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...boxer. In the opinion of Ray Arcel, 82, the dappled sage in Holmes' corner, "there hasn't been a real puncher since Jersey Joe Walcott, who could hit you on top of the head and knock you out." The heavyweight champions Arcel is ignoring include Rocky Marciano, Ingemar Johansson, Sonny Listen, Joe Frazier and George Foreman. Of recent challengers, Earnie Shavers possessed the closest thing to the big bat. Holmes whipped Shavers twice...
Mahre, 23, went into the last race of the season, a giant slalom at Laax, Switzerland, needing a third-place finish or better to edge out the great Swedish slalom and giant-slalom specialist Ingemar Stenmark in the winter-long Cup competition. At the end of the two giant-slalom runs at Laax, Mahre had a combined time of 2 min. 40.05 sec. That put him in second place for the day behind Alexander Zhirov, a rising Soviet star, who came in at 2 min. 39.80 sec. Stenmark was third, at 2 min. 40.24 sec. But Mahre's finish...
...Olympics took up two weeks of my time, and caused tears, laughs, tensions and above all excitement. I truly felt the patriotic joy that all Americans are supposed to have. Now that the Games are over, I will miss my gorgeous hockey team, incomparable Ingemar Stenmark and incredible Eric Heiden. I wasn't there, but I have new friends and heroes...
...Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark snaking through the slalom gates with seemingly offhanded genius...
...Winter Olympics turned Eric Heiden into a golden apotheosis to Americans, the Swedes had long since made a national hero of Ingemar Stenmark, an eerily perfect slalom racer who is as popular at home as Bjorn Borg, the tennis champion. At 23, Stenmark has won the World Cup three times. Before Lake Placid, he had taken 14 World Cup giant slalom races in a row while competing against the best racers in the world-a record as awesome in its own way as Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak in 1941. In some ways, Stenmark is the Alpine...