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Four years after the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, the press continues to snipe at us. In your report on the Sarajevo Games, almost every adjective or phrase you use in referring to Lake Placid has a negative or derogatory connotation. We may have done some things imperfectly that winter, but we did a lot that was right...
...Lake Placid...
...Olympic blizzard went too far. So devoutly wished for in the sultry days leading up to this winter carnival, the snows of Sarajevo finally fell by the ton. As a result, the first few days of the Games rivaled the man-made chaos of Lake Placid, though it must be said that Yugoslav bus drivers avoid avalanches better than U.S. hockey players...
...This is a good team," said TV Commentator Mike Eruzione, whose goal beat the Soviets in Lake Placid, "but I've never seen a goalie play as well as Jim Craig did for those two weeks in 1980." Twenty-seven seconds into the Canada game, the defending gold medalists were behind. The final score was 4-2, and though the play was less passionate than expected, the arena was quiet enough to hear a dream drop. The 1984 team has more teeth, but fewer calluses than its more grizzled predecessors. Ed Olczyk, 17, of Chicago, still says things like...
Around a ramp of snow trucked down from the hills, the flame was delivered to Figure Skater Sanda Dubravcic. She ran the sparkler up a great white staircase, and the Olympic wok ignited instantly with a roar. But the highlight for some was the final duty of Lake Placid, the hosts of 1980, represented by Mayor Robert Peacock and the Norwood, N.Y., fire-department band. Appearing incomplete without a Dalmatian trotting alongside, the firemen oom-pah-pahed along the Bosnian Main Street, performing When the Saints Go Marching In, America the Beautiful and Baby Face...