Word: olympicsized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mahre's success reflects the growing strength of the U.S. alpine team, which just two years ago won only a bronze medal at the Innsbruck Olympics. After that debacle, the team's annual budget was doubled, to $600,000, and its staff of coaches increased from half a...
Hackett, a silver medalist in the 1976 Montreal Olympics who led Harvard to a perfect 8-0 dual meet slate this year, broke the meet record by six seconds en route to his triumph in the 500-yd. freestyle. Hackett won with a time of 4:24.47, as his teammate...
President Laurent Boix-Vives (pronounced Bwah-veeve), now 51, started two ski-lift companies in his home region of Savoie in 1951, after serving an apprenticeship in his father's fruit and vegetable business. In 1955 he learned from a friend, Emile Allais, a former world downhill and slalom...
What is the best time to retire? Jim Brown, the great running back of the Cleveland Browns, quit at the height of his powers, in 1966, before he began having to fight his age. By contrast, Willie Mays went on until he was 42 and found himself stumbling around under...
"The competition has improved measurably this year because it isn't an Olympic year," said Leon Nawrocki yesterday, "The great skiers have returned to college again until they start preparing for the 1980 Olympics."