Word: nordic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Allen seems confident that even without knowing what half of the 10 teams at the championships will look like, Harvard men's cross-country "stands a good chance of finishing second" in the relay. Manya Deehr '87, one of the women's top Nordic skiers and an Alaska native who has been on skis since the age of two, predicts a win for the women's relay squad...
...team is stronger than it was three years ago," when it dropped from Division I to Division II, and has a nucleus of very strong skiers, including Deehr. Allen, and three other co-captains--Jeff Donahue '84, Jenny Hale '85, and Margaret Waters '84. Waters finished second at the nordic Division I Eastern championships last winter...
...hockey players, another breed of home-grown Olympians will drive themselves beyond reason in strange and dangerous events without so much as a pat on the back or, for most, even a faint hope of gold, silver or bronze medals. U.S. athletes in the "minor" winter sports of biathlon, Nordic skiing, bobsled, luge and ski jumping have won only one silver and one bronze since 1956. But despite archaic equipment, meager training and, in most cases, pitifully small funding, they persist against the lavishly bestowed resources of Scandinavia, East Germany and the U.S.S.R. And this year, while perhaps only four...
...Nordic Combined might as well be a smorgasbord entree to most Americans, but it may become less exotic after Sarajevo. Many consider Coloradan Kerry Lynch, 26, the world's best at the event, which pairs a 15-km cross-country race with a 70-meter ski jump. Lynch hopes for an end to the sport's, and his own, obscuri ty. For the U.S. to take the gold away from the defending champion East Germans, he says, "would be like the South Pole coming up and winning the Super Bowl...
America's premier minor-sports figure, Nordic Skier Bill Koch, 28, trains relentlessly for the first...