Word: nordic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second tenth place finish in a row puts pressure on them to perform or face the prospect of a Division II season next year. Most importantly, the squad must find some strength in the nordic events...
...going to have to struggle to stay in Division I," nordic captain Eric Nordel said yesterday. "If we don't get any snow between now and the Middlebury carnival (in three weeks), they'll probably hold the jumping at Lake Placid again...
BILL KOCH. Americans do not win crosscountry ski races. So when Bill Koch, a reclusive Vermonter from Putney (pop. 1,789), won the silver medal in the 30-km race at Innsbruck in 1976, the first U.S. medal ever in Nordic siding, nobody was there to notice. In fact, after the race was over, Koch had to go out again in his uniform and skis so that photographers could take his picture for the papers back home...
Stenmark, 23, is something of a skiing oddity, a man from a Nordic country who excels in alpine events and regularly beats the Germans, Austrians, Swiss, Italians and Frenchmen, who have long dominated downhill skiing. He grew up in tiny Tarnaby (pop. 600), just 50 miles south of the Arctic Circle, and learned to ski on the gentle slope behind his home. Tutored by a father who was a devotee of skiing, Stenmark was Ingemar Stenmark preps for the Olympics at a World Cup race in France a budding virtuoso...
Although the medal came 50 years late, this man was the first American to win a medal in Nordic skiing. Name...