Word: medalling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard wrestling team finished 13th overall in the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Championships Saturday in Syracuse, N.Y., but placed its two most consistent members on the medal stand...
...France's Franck Piccard, who had never won a World Cup race although he had looked good earlier in the Games, taking a bronze in the downhill. His expression as the other racers failed seemed to ask, "What do I do now?" Carry the weight of a gold medal was the answer: he was France's first ski hero in several thin years...
...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...
What happened, America? The question has been on the lips of downcast viewers upset as the nation hovered around seventh in the overall medal standings, near such world powers as the Netherlands and Italy. The U.S. Olympic Committee is so worried that even before the Games were done, it appointed a blue-ribbon commission to look into the matter. The chairman? None other than Mr. Yankee himself, George Steinbrenner, well-known master of the art of eliciting top performances from athletes. Steinbrenner promptly swore to "tell it like...
Some of the little girls watching the competition might go on to a career in ice skating; one might win a gold medal. I hope the sportscasters and judges she has to face will be as encouraging of athletic skill as of artistic talent...