Word: koch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...silver medal to her gold. Whatever the weather, those frosty cross-country men still take to the woods like splayfooted deer. In describing the Americans' disposition so far, it may be enough to say that 20 skiers came back from the 30-km race ahead of Bill Koch...
...returned to form, winning the World Cup cross-country competition. But Koch has remained intense and intensely private as he prepares for one of the most demanding and certainly the longest-distance event in either the Winter or Summer Games, the 50-km (31-mile) cross-country race. He fears Russians less than microbes. Says he: "You spend years preparing for a specific event and then sit next to someone who's coughing. It could be all over...
...Koch stresses mind over medals and effort over interviews. Perhaps that is the inevitable legacy of all those years when the U.S. finished far out of the running, unnoticed and unremarked. His goal: to be out on the course alone, skis singing in the tracks and his true Olympian's heart pumping anonymously, gloriously to its limit. Says he: "I get my happiness, my life, from the act of striving for excellence...
Winning is just the frosting." For Koch and the other U.S. competitors, Sarajevo will be no piece of cake. -By J.D. Reed...
...generous offer: the proceeds from the TV taping of the show would be used to build a children's playground named after the erstwhile Supreme. But when the event's promoters announced that a thunderstorm had washed away the profits, there were rumblings from Mayor Edward Koch's office suggesting that it was not just Ross who had been soaked. The dark cloud hanging over the affair turned out to have a silver lining last week when Ross presented Koch with a $250,000 check from her own pocket. "It's for the kids," said...