Word: nicas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there was anyone in Sarajevo who did not know beforehand that Bill Johnson of the U.S. was the best downhiller Mount Bjelašnica ever saw, it was not because Johnson had failed to spread the word. He said it repeatedly during the long week of delays and training runs before the race, and he said it afterward. Is not consistency the mark of a great athlete? "Top three? I think I'll finish in the top one," he confided amiably. Outrageous, muttered the sport's moguls. World-class cockiness...
...Forty people were killed in avalanches in Austria, Italy and Switzerland. Throughout Alpine Europe, roads were closed, villages cut off, skiers stranded. Austrian Franz Klammer, American Bill Johnson and that whole body of men who like to race down mountains had to break two dates with Mount Bjelašnica, where the winds topped 120 m.p.h. and the safety nets blew away. Over at Jahorina, the women downhillers were also delayed...