Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dorothy Hamill has enjoyed all of the publicity and attention that surrounds a three-time national champion. Her picture is on the cover of Time Magazine. ABC has followed her every step on the way for three years. Many feel she has the best shot for an American gold medal in the upcoming Olympic Games in Innsbruck, Austria...
...Medal Mania...
...article on France's current medal mania [Jan. 12] reminded me of André Gide's observation that by middle age all Frenchmen acquire two things: gonorrhea and the Légion d'Honneur...
...though, that the Olympics should present the most riveting and partisan spectacle for U.S. viewers. The nation's most talented team is in speed skating, with at least two gold-medal prospects (see box page 64). For nine days they will be locked in a race with a powerful Russian assemblage...
Last month at the national championships, the tension, compounded by fatigue, disrupted Dorothy's performance: she left several jumps out of her program. "She can't afford to do that in Innsbruck," says her coach, Carlo Fassi, who guided Peggy Fleming to her gold medal in Grenoble eight years ago. He is right. Dorothy's main competition in the Olympics will be European Champion Diane de Leeuw, an unflappable skater...