Word: medalist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Star Tamara McKinney, who broke her leg three months before, fell on the first run. Two other convalescing U.S. skiers, Diann Roffe and '84 Olympic GS Gold Medalist Debbie Armstrong, could do no better than twelfth and 13th. Now came Fernandez-Ochoa. "I already felt the medal in my pocket," she said later between sobs. It must have been her hotel key, because she charged too hard and fell 20 sec. into the run. Her tumble gave Schneider the gold. The silver went to a sentimental favorite, Christa Kinshofer-Guthlein , 27, of West Germany, who won a silver in slalom...
...consistent with their stage images. Peggy Fleming filmed commercials for Trident gum before moving on to sportscasting; Dorothy Hamill inspired a national hairstyle and represented a shampoo company; Katerina Witt is about to enter a career in acting and modeling. But things will be different for 1988's bronze medalist. A true sportswoman, Debbie Thomas plans to become an orthopedic surgeon, a positive role model in and out of the skating world...
...32nd place in the downhill. A.J. Kitt and Jeff Olson, a couple of youngsters still getting used to the World Cup circuit, did respectably to finish 26th and 28th. No U.S. male skier survived the combined. Among the women, early-season injuries knocked out Star Tamara McKinney, '84 Gold Medalist Armstrong, Downhillers Eva Twardokens, Tori Pillinger, Adel Allender and Diann Roffe. (McKinney and Armstrong, on the mend, are at Calgary and ready to race.) Then only an hour before she was to race in the downhill, Team Veteran Pam Fletcher, the last realistic hope for a top-15 showing, collided...
This year, the Olympic hockey team--a team trying to live up to the gold medalist, "miracle" team of 1980 and trying to avenge the honor of the disappointing seventh-place unit of 1984--will finish no higher than seventh place...
...loss left the Americans on the brink of elimination from making the medals round, with a 1-2 record and having to beat Norway and West Germany to even have a chance. The defending gold medalist Soviets are now 3-0 and are virtually assured of a spot in the medals round...