Word: nordic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Slip Slidin' Away: The Harvard ski team begins its preparation for the upcoming season December 15 when it starts a week of intense training at Killington, Vt. There are 24 members on the ski team, six each on the men's and women's Nordic and men's and women's downhill squads...
...competitive season begins in January and runs through the end of February. Except for one week allotted for exams, the Crimson will be competing in a two-day carnival each weekend during the season. Two runs of the Nordic race and downhill slalom are held on the first day of each carnival, followed by two runs of the Nordic relay and downhill giant slalom the next...
...Crimson competes in Division II, which consists of 10 teams. The same 10 teams compete in each carnival, and the top men's and women's team, determined by a combined cumulative score of Nordic and downhill competition, will qualify for the Division I championships held at Middlebury on February 23-24. The top five skiers in each event will also travel to Middlebury. From there, the top skiers can earn individual entries in the NCAA championships March 7-10 at Stowe...
...pretty pictures: stained glass in motion, from the First Church of DeMille. Handsome men -- their beards neatly curled and trimmed, their robes immaculate -- trod on tiptoe through a Judaea as verdant and manicured as Forest Lawn. They may have represented Israelites of two millenniums past, but they often looked Nordic; God must have had blue eyes. And they spoke the King's English: King James', with an assist from any screenwriter willing to gussy up his fustian. In these prim tones, the heart's revolution that Jesus preached became an Oxford don's lecture, and his ghastly, redemptive death...
Athletic glamour and grandeur are often in the eye of local beholders. To U.S. viewers, no amount of informative programming will make the luge, bobsled and . Nordic combined more than curiosity-shop events -- a job only American medals would do. But fans in other countries had cause to rejoice in some non-prime- time, though historic, performances. East German Frank-Peter Roetsch was the first ever to capture both the 10-km and 20-km biathlons, a daunting standard for future ski shooters. Even more notably, Soviet Cross-Country Skier Raisa Smetanina tied for the most decorated competitor...