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...dispiriting day for pageantry: raw, windy, drizzly. But as runners started the torch on its zigzag, 15,000-kilometer journey across 33 of the 50 American states, the dark skies seemed only to intensify the symbolic glow. The second runner, 91-year-old Abel Kiviat, silver medalist in the 1,500-meter race in the 1912 Olympics, had no inkling that anything was amiss as he ended his appointed kilometer; he lit the torch of twelve-year-old Timothy Towers, who had won the honor in a raffle, and urged, "Carry on." But as the 22nd runner, Nicole Zell...
...Diplomacy. He was a member of the 1980 Olympic Rowing Team and is a candidate of the 1984 squad that will go to Los Angeles this summer. The Soviet Union and a number of its allies will not be going and Altekruse, a 1982 World Championship bronze medalist had the following thoughts about the boycott...
...snow had barely melted from Olympic Gold Medalist Bill Johnson's skis before the brash Californian was burning up yet another course last week. Johnson's current speeding is not on the slopes of Canada's Whistler Mountain, where he won the final race of the men's World Cup downhill season earlier this month, but on the horizontal track at California's Riverside International Raceway. Johnson, who was gearing up for the pro-celebrity during the Toyota Grand Prix to be held this week in Long Beach, Calif., is typically nonchalant about trading...
...golden opportunity. Make that silver. Two days later their coach, Ron Ludington, the last American pairs medalist (bronze in 1960), summed up the free skating: "I'd call that walking right through the door, wouldn't you?" Wouldn't anybody? On the big night Valova and Vasiliev held their gold-medal lead on a more difficult program. Nurtured, like the Protopopovs, in the Leningrad school, they showed its hallmarks: coolly cerebral slow passages alternating with flashy jumps and lifts. But the performance of the young Soviet pair, Larisa Selezneva and Oleg Makarov, with whom the Carrutherses were...
...natural fizz that makes the efforts of most others look labored. In fact her coach, Jutta Muller, is a stern drillmaster who is accustomed to Olympic triumph: her daughter Gabriele Seyfert took the silver medal in 1968, and Anett Poetzsch, another pupil, was the Lake Placid gold medalist...