Word: olympicsized
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Hearty, vigorous, genial and suitably spandexed these activities all are. But are they really sports worthy of the Winter Olympics? Do ski ballet and aerials and moguls, short-track skating, curling and speed skiing display the requisite patina of frostbitten history and frigid heritage? Do they evoke the glory that...
Mogul skiing, in which Donna Weinbrecht of New Jersey earned the women's gold medal last week, is dramatic. It involves slaloming among scores of boneshaking bumps down a straight 820-ft. course while completing two jumps, striving for both style and speed. Its curse, like that of so many...
Relegated to the sidelines, the Poles and Norwegians pondered what might have been. But even some losers found joy in the act of participation. Italian defenseman Bob Manno, 36, a former N.H.L. All-Star winding down his career in dignified exile a long way from his native Niagara Falls, demonstrated...
Chalk it up to injuries. Or hard ice conditions. Or the elimination of the compulsory school figures. Whatever the explanation, the 1992 Olympics will be remembered for laying to rest one of skating's favorite axioms: all medals are preordained.
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