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...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...
...Ursula Konzett, a 24-year-old Liechtensteiner, took the bronze. The only known quantity here was France's Perrine Pelen, who won the silver and, earlier, a bronze behind Armstrong and Cooper in the G.S. Four years ago, Pelen took a bronze in the G.S. at Lake Placid. But talking about 1980 only emphasizes that four years ago, Michela Figini of Switzerland, who won the gold in the downhill last week, was 13 years old. For Americans, nothing showed the passage of time more than the news that the stalwart Cindy Nelson, 28, competing in her third Olympics with...
...world seemed almost to forget about the 26-year-old twins from Yakima, Wash., whose careers had proved that U.S. men skiers could beat the world. Phil had won the World Cup three years in a row, and he had taken a silver in slalom at Lake Placid. Steve had won the G.S. world championship in 1982. But in the Sarajevo G.S., these anchors of the U.S. team could do no better than eighth and 17th. They were quitting after this season, they said, and they seemed tired of skiing. Poor old men. But there was one last Olympic race...
...memory, or at least since the Soviets started competing in Winter Games, in 1956, there was no commanding partnership in pairs skating. The long reigns of the Protopopovs and Irina Rodnina and her succession of partners, Sergei Ulanov and Alexander Zaitsev, had come to an end. Since Lake Placid, several pairs had taken aim at one another, among them the Carrutherses, two Soviet pairs (Elena Valova and Oleg Vasiliev, and Veronika Pershina and Marat Akbarov) and East Germans Sabine Baess and Tassilo Thierbach. Compared with the liturgical certainty of pairs skating during the past three decades, the Sarajevo Games were...
...sensibility. She has a natural fizz that makes the efforts of most others look labored. In fact her coach, Jutta Muller, is a stern drillmaster who is accustomed to Olympic triumph: her daughter Gabriele Seyfert took the silver medal in 1968, and Anett Poetzsch, another pupil, was the Lake Placid gold medalist...