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...Alpine skiing blasts off with the sheer fun and sheer craziness of the downhill. The mighty Swiss, led by Pirmin Zurbriggen, are the ones to watch for. -- Ski Jumper Matti Nykanen, Finland's bad boy, takes off for the first of two hoped-for golds. -- U.S. speed skaters came up empty-handed at Sarajevo, but at this distance Americans Nick Thometz and Dan Jansen are both good bets...
Also pacing the attack for the Bulldogs are junior center Matti Christiansen (27.43--70) and senior left wing Tom Herzig...
...defeat" image of a ski jumper blowing it on ABC'S Wide World of Sports is an ironically accurate one: Americans have not landed a medal in the 70-or 90-meter event since a 1924 bronze. In Sarajevo, all eyes will be on Finland's renowned Matti Nykanen. That is just fine with Jeff Hastings, 24, and Mike Holland, 22, both legitimate medal contenders. They have flown on their 16-lb. skis since their childhood days in Norwich, Vt. It was not a desire for the limelight that has had them flying. "Defying gravity...
...tight-lipped and occasionally melancholic Finns insist that their acquiescence to the Soviets is widely misunderstood abroad. "We are a fiercely independent people," says Matti Khova, managing director of a private Finnish economic research group. "You cannot hurt a Finn more than by saying he is dependent on the Soviet Union." The Finns, who lost two wars and 12% of their national territory to the Soviets between 1939 and 1945, claim that they are simply being "realistic" in their relations with Moscow. As one prominent politician puts it, "When it's useless to do something...
...Matti Savolainen, who plays the part of Carea, one of the few intelligent defenders of the society Caligula sets out to destroy, fails to exude the shrewd acrimony of the practical man who knows what he wants and knows how to get it. This villain sports a long, thin moustache and a Latin accent, suggesting the Frito Bandito loose in the Roman Empire. Sonia Martinez evokes the right amount of cruelty, sensuality, and vacuousness that you would expect from a woman who devotes her life to a man who kills for reasons she finds incomprehensible, although she misses the more...