Word: olympian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past few seasons or break loose with the Day-Glo flash of fresh fluorescence? Do they want the newly refined chic of Montana, played down and spiffed up like cotillion costumes for postpunk debs? Or the electric, eclectic, aggressively youthful chic of Jean-Paul Gaultier? Or the Olympian chic of Saint Laurent? And-oh, yes. Is Fort Worth really ready for Versace...
...speedskating, Gaetan Boucher, winner of two golds and a bronze, led Canada in song. Counting a silver medal won in Lake Placid (a second to Heiden, nearly as good as a gold), Boucher is the most successful Olympian in his country's history. "Keep going, I told my legs in the 1500," he said. "I started hurting at 300 meters. It was strictly guts." Canadians had invested meager hope in their hockey team, which lost 16 times in 19 exhibition games leading up to the Olympics, including...
Torvill, 26, and Dean, 25, have carried ice dancing singlehanded from the amiable charms of the ballroom to the aesthetic splendor of ballet. Never was their vision of the sport's potential as clear as it was in this Olympian performance. Twice before in competition they had received nine 6.0 scores on their second marks for artistic impression, but at Sarajevo they added three 6.0s in the scores for composition or technical merit. They did it despite choosing music, Ravel's Bolero, that does not contain a change of tempo, supposedly a requirement. But to Torvill...
...athletes as they waved their stetsons. Significantly, when it came to electing a flag bearer, the U.S. captains of the various sports passed over those who are well publicized, and occasionally well paid, in favor of a dedicated Delaware luge racer named Frank Masley, 23, a second-time Olympian. "Their days may come on the medal stand," says Masley, who had no chance for that, "but this day was ours." He referred to all neglected sports...
Koch stresses mind over medals and effort over interviews. Perhaps that is the inevitable legacy of all those years when the U.S. finished far out of the running, unnoticed and unremarked. His goal: to be out on the course alone, skis singing in the tracks and his true Olympian's heart pumping anonymously, gloriously to its limit. Says he: "I get my happiness, my life, from the act of striving for excellence...