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...spectators, the In spots at Innsbruck last week were Mittermaier Mountain and Hamill Hall. At least that is what Winter Olympic officials might as well have called the sites where West German Skier Rosi Mittermaier and American Figure Skater Dorothy Hamill performed. Mittermaier Mountain was the steep slope of Axamer Lizum, where tens of thousands of Germans and Austrians chanted, "Rosi, Ro-si," every time their daredevil streaked by, which she did fast enough and often enough to win three medals: two gold and one silver. Hamill Hall was the Olympic Stadium, where seemingly every American in Austria turned...
...fans, the week's first surprise came on a twisting, plunging course in the snow bowl at Lizum, outside Innsbruck. When she started down the course, American Skier Cindy Nelson, 20, was not sure exactly what route to take: earlier, one of her coaches had unintentionally given her the wrong line to follow, and she had completed only three of nine practice runs. Even as she hurtled down the slope, Cindy was slightly off course. "When I saw my time," said the Lutsen, Minn., native, "I thought, 'Hell, that's a fifth.' " In fact, it turned...
First Victory. Before the curtain came down on the Rosi show, Dorothy Hamill, 19, opened to rave reviews back in Innsbruck. Her undoing in previous world competitions had always been the compulsory figures. In Innsbruck, though, Dorothy mastered the formal circles and finished second, ahead of her arch rival, Diane de Leeuw, 20. The reason: six months ago her coach Carlo Fassi, who also guided John Curry to victory (see box), reluctantly decided his own design of blades did not suit Dorothy and switched her to a flatter blade...
Darting around Innsbruck's Olympic Stadium last week, Figure-Skating Coach Carlo Fassi kept the uniforms of several nations on hand and changed colors midway through events. "I go like crazy," he explained. "I'm everywhere." Everywhere Fassi was last week, there seemed to be gold. In a sport where most coaches would be satisfied to guide just one competitor into the Olympics, the ubiquitous Fassi brought four skaters to the Winter Games and left with two gold-medal winners: America's Dorothy Hamill and Britain's John Curry. The double victory confirmed what many people...
...until July rolls around, when I can savor the hoopla of Olympic basketball and appreciate the runs and jumps and swims which I grew up on, I'll just have to look back to Innsbruck...