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Next Wednesday afternoon in Bergisel Stadium in Innsbruck, Austria, 1,500 athletes from some 40 nations and 70,000 spectators will watch as Josef Feistmantl, a former luge-sled gold medalist, lights the Olympic flame opening the twelfth Winter Games. That flame will burn for twelve days of competition in the dangerous, exciting, magically graceful world of winter sports. More than half a billion people around the world will follow the action on TV, including millions in the U.S. who can tune in 39½ hours of coverage on ABC, most of it in prime time...
...former came up from Atlanta for the meeting. During an illustrious career, he defeated both Cornell's John Anderson, who later went on to win the Boston Marathon, and Olympic gold medalist Frank Shorter of Yale. About his days of running cross-country at Harvard, his sole comment was "only insane were involved...
...Gold medalist Cashin said, "I can't imagine anyone beating us. You look around and I don't know how good they are but I know how good we are. And I know that nobody could be as good or as well-trained or as superbly coached. There's no doubt in my mind that we'll burn everyone...
McGrath, who was a silver medalist in the World Professional Championships in 1968, 1969, and 1970, outperformed eight competitors with his program done to Carl Orff's "Carmina Burana" to earn seven perfect and two near-perfect scores from the nine judges...
...father, retired Major Peter Phillips, "reminded me of V-E day." At one point the bridal party broke into laughter when Mark spotted a long white banner reading: "It's never too late to say 'neigh'-congratulations from the Royal Veterinary College." Mark, an Olympic gold medalist who shares Anne's passion for horses, turned to the princess and said...