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Senior high-jumper Dora Gyorffy is now back on campus after taking off the fall semester to compete in the Sydney Olympics. Both she and Sillats will be competing together this weekend at the Millrose Games, the self-proclaimed greatest indoor track and field event in the world.
It all started during the Lake Placid Olympics in '80, when I first saw a short segment on biathlon and it seemed like the coolest winter sport ever (skiing with a rifle on your back - come on!). After the '84 Sarajevo Games my friend Erik suggested that we train for...
It's also nearly impossible to stay discouraged when talking to the other members of the club. Everyone there is very friendly and encouraging, and I realize that 15 minutes spent talking to someone with experience (one of the skiers who is there, Curt Schreiner, has been to the Olympics...
It's not the first time Israel has used assassinations. After Israeli athletes were killed at the 1972 Munich Olympics, Mossad hit squads tracked down in Europe and Lebanon members of the Black September terrorist group responsible. But they also mistook a Moroccan waiter for the terrorist group's kingpin...
Not since African American Jesse Owens ran upside Hitler at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin has a footrace been freighted with so much extra-athletic significance. Modern Australia is in debate over the nation's poor-to-horrid treatment of the island's original settlers, the Aborigines. Now here was...