Word: metering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eerily long floating descent and -- as of right -- a first-place finish. The boyish Nykanen, 24, punched the air in triumph and seemed to ignore the awed congratulations of Pavel Ploc and Jiri Malec, the Czechs who finished a distant second and third. The decisive win in the 70-meter competition gave Nykanen his first gold at Calgary, with a shot at an unprecedented second and third this week in the weather-delayed 90-meter individual and team events. It also made him the first jumper in some 50 years to finish first in more than one Olympics...
Since 1981, when he won his first international junior championship, the flashy Finn has piled up 1,479 World Cup points, some 400 more than the nearest competitor. At Sarajevo, he won gold in the 90 meter and silver in the 70 meter...
American Speed Skater Dan Jansen was carrying a weight of grief last week, and he fell. At 22, he was at the top of his form, having won the 500-meter at the world sprint championships near his home in West Allis, Wis., just a week earlier. But at 6 a.m. Sunday, eleven hours before he was to pursue the gold at that distance in Calgary, Jansen was summoned to a phone. It was a call from the hospital room of his sister Jane with the news that she was rapidly losing her yearlong battle with leukemia. The eldest...
When he fell the second time, on the straightaway of Thursday's 1,000-meter event, just 200 meters short of the finish, it was even more stunning, as if he had been forced down by sorrow alone. Watching from the gallery, Brother Mike, 24, had just assured a sister: "Dan's made it through the toughest turns. He's fine now." At the 600-meter mark, Jansen was .31 sec. faster than any of the competition. Then his right skate "caught an edge" -- hit the ice on the side instead of the bottom of the blade -- sending...
...silver went to East Germany's Jens-Uwe Mey, already winner of the 500 with a 36.45 record. Finally on Saturday the U.S. medal drought ended when Eric Flaim, who placed fourth in both the 500 and the 1,000, took second in the 1,500-meter event...