Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...speedskating, Gaetan Boucher, winner of two golds and a bronze, led Canada in song. Counting a silver medal won in Lake Placid (a second to Heiden, nearly as good as a gold), Boucher is the most successful Olympian in his country's history. "Keep going, I told my legs in the 1500," he said. "I started hurting at 300 meters. It was strictly guts." Canadians had invested meager hope in their hockey team, which lost 16 times in 19 exhibition games leading up to the Olympics, including...
Johnson is not held in total esteem by his associates on the ski team. His bold arrogance contrasted with the appealing wonder of Debbie Armstrong, 20, so surprised to be perched on the gold-medal stand that she could scarcely stop laughing. U.S. men and women skiers were able o share this feeling in the same Olympics for the first time, Armstrong winning the women's giant slalom. A delightful former tomboy devoted to all games, whether booting soccer balls or shooting 'hoops," she concluded that skiing was her favorite sport only after a broken leg two years...
...wish for a competition as clean as a clock. The complaints over judging this time ran from Canadian Gary Beacom, declaring, "We're not trained monkeys, we're human beings," to American Michael Seibert, murmuring, "It hurts when it's your only chance for an Olympic medal." Partly because of the music they skated to, Seibert and Partner Judy Blumberg finished fourth, behind two sets of Soviets and the elegant British dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean...
...Their lovely exhibition upstaged much of the serious skating ahead and showed how joyless that can be. Not the usual word applied to Scott Hamilton, 25, a happy little dynamo who looks as though he fell off a charm bracelet. Yet it fitted even him. He won the gold medal, but with a wistful shrug said he always imagined it would be "more special." A miscalculation, evidently, involving flips and salchows. Rosalynn Sumners skated beautifully, perfectly in the view of one judge, and narrowly lost to the German Democratic Republic's Brooke Shields, Katarina Witt...
...Canada defeated the Americans to start the tournament, 4-2, and the bronze-medal game with Sweden was televised live nationally at 4 o'clock in the morning...