Word: medal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They may as well mail the gold medal to his house, he went on, and on. Phil Mahre, a man of great modesty and foot scuffling, was clearly on Klammer's side...
Shortly before his own gold-medal effort, Phil Mahre said that Johnson's win "could be a good thing or it could be a disaster, it's all up to Billy." Like other top practitioners who have watched Johnson, Mahre says that technically he is not that good a skier, especially on hard snow...
...American, Scott Hamilton, went into battle at Zetra and, feeling that he "wasn't into the ice," decided to retrench, withdrawing two triple jumps from his free-skating program. He still won the gold medal, but it was not with the dominating performance with which he wanted to cap his career. The English ice-dancing couple, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, gave the Winter Olympics its first utterly flawless exhibition: nine perfect marks of 6.0 from nine judges. But Gary Beacom, a Canadian skater, became so enraged over his marks from the judges that he kicked the rinkside barrier...
...there is the safety of incumbency. Like heavyweight champions, they cannot lose their titles on a draw: they must be beaten. But with that status come expectations that are perhaps impossible to fulfill. Thus, after a performance that was lackluster by his exacting standards, Hamilton could finger his gold medal and say, "I look at this, and I see 16 years of my life. I've waited a long time. I didn't want it to be like this...
...patience that tries both talent and dreams. The top rank is tough to crack, for the edge always goes to the headliners. Tiffany Chin, who at 16 was competing brilliantly in her first Olympics, could bask in a strong showing while cheerfully accepting the virtual impossibility of a medal. She had finished twelfth in the compulsory figures, and even with a runaway victory in the free skating while others faltered badly, a silver medal was the best she could have won. Said Chin: "I skated good figures, but the other skaters ahead of me were all established with the judges...