Word: nordic
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They needed encouragement. By the nature of most refrigerated sports, the Winter Games are understandably a Nordic and European bailiwick. But North American pickings have never been so pitiful. After an entire week of schussing, sliding and skating, Canada and the U.S. were still fighting over a solitary gold medal, ultimately lifted from the Canadian Brian Orser by the U.S. figure skater Brian Boitano to the gentle dismay of the hometown Calgarians. The Americans had to plow their way through nearly half the Games to reap just two medals: the 1,500-meter silver taken by Flaim, and a bronze...
Other handy things to know: the Alpine skiers are the ones showing their trademarks to the cameras; the Nordic skiers have the icicles in their beards. Slaloms are perfectible, downhills only survivable. The best biathlete is one whose pounding heart won't betray his rifle's aim. And the speed skaters are the kind dressed like frogmen...
Noon--Four-man bobsleighm third and fourth runs; nordic combined 15-km. cross-country; hockey medal round...
Noon--Four-man bobsleigh, third and fourth runs; nordic combined, 15-km. cross-country; hockey medal round...
...Nordic combined, 70-meter ski jump...