Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Said Norwegian Skating Coach Sten Stenson: "In Norway, we say that if you can be good in the 5,000 and 10,000, you can't do the 500. But Eric can do it. We have no idea how to train to take him. We just hope he retires." "What Heiden is doing," said U.S. Marathon Star Bill Rodgers as Eric's medals piled up, "is comparable to a guy winning everything from the 400 meters to the 10,000 meters in track. There may be guys who can do 5,000 and 10,000 meters...
...free time, no training, no meets. Now I can do what I want to do." Eventually, he expects to go into sports medicine, possibly as an orthopedic surgeon like his father. He will spend next year studying at a sports medicine institute in Norway, where he has a Norwegian girlfriend...
...most grandly lunatic of the Winter Games, drew less than a swarm. At the men's 30-km cross-country venue, the American spectators would have fit around a poker table or two. (Some 400 people rocked from one cold foot to the other, but most were Norwegian or Finnish officials...
DIED. Finn Ronne, 80, American polar explorer; of a heart attack; in Bethesda, Md. The son of a Norwegian sailmaker who had gone to Antarctica with Roald Amundsen and Admiral Richard E. Byrd, Ronne joined Byrd's 1933 expedition there as a radio operator and dogsled driver. Over the next 25 years, he returned to the South Pole eight times (thrice with his wife Edith, one of the first women to make the trip). On a 15-month trek in 1946-48, he disproved the notion that the continent was divided in two, and finished charting the Weddell...