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...this to be not one of the best, but the actual best of all the 14 Winter Games." Indeed, the facilities are handsome. Mike Moran, press director of the U.S. Olympic Committee, says, "The village is the nicest one, summer or winter, I've ever seen." In Lake Placid, N.Y., the Olympic Village of four years ago has been turned into a prison, a conversion that required little change in atmosphere. The athletes' quarters in Sarajevo have the mood of a small town, complete with landscaped square, where the flats are small but pleasant. The knotty-pine floors...
...wagon or a cow, no women drivers have been spotted in a week. The dark worry of terrorism that has lately attended all Olympic gatherings seems somewhat lighter on the eve of the XIV Winter Games (remember, Yugoslavia confounded Hitler without much help). Four years ago, at Lake Placid and Moscow, then I.O.C. President Lord Killanin spoke defensively about the very future of the Olympics. The question was actually posed: Should there be Olympic Games? Anyone who still regarded these quadrennial sports feasts as havens from the troubles afflicting mankind had not been paying attention...
...spent $91.5 million in 1980 for the opportunity to televise the Sarajevo Games, a figure that at the time seemed astronomical. Yet two weeks ago, Arledge and company purchased the rights to the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alta., for $309 million. Way back in 1980, the Lake Placid Winter Games cost the network only $15.5 million. A phenomenal escalation but, so far, not an insane one. For the Sarajevo Games, ABC is charging advertisers an average $225,000 for 30 seconds of prune time, down to a bargain-basement $75,000 for late night, and every spot is already...
Sarajevo, Yugoslavia-Just one game into the Olympic hockey tournament. Team USA is an all or noting situation. After the emotion-packed gold medal performance in Lake Placid four years ago, the 1984 Olympians may not even be in medal contention this time...
Reported by Steven Holmes/Lake Placid...