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...Americans in Yugoslavia, Hamilton, 25, is closest to a shoo-in for a gold medal. He finished fifth at Lake Placid in 1980, but since September of that year, he has won all his competitions, including four U.S. and three world championships. For all his easy-looking successes, Hamilton has had the inevitable emotional kinks to straighten out. "You have all these idealistic values about what a champion should be," he says, "and suddenly you're thrust into living up to it. I felt I could never let down. I drove myself crazy. I was terrible to myself...
shouted ABC-TV Announcer D Al Michaels over the uproar of an ecstatic Lake Placid crowd as the last seconds of the Soviet-American Olympic hockey semifinal game ticked away with the Americans leading...
...offer to pose en masse for Vogue-all in the reckless anticipation that miracles can strike twice. It puts unholy pressure on the young skaters, some of whom had hardly begun shaving four years ago, when Jim Craig, Mark Johnson and the rest were working their legerdemain at Lake Placid. But if any coach can reproduce a mir acle, Vairo, 38, may be the one: his own success story points to the moral that in sport, anything is possible...
...masters of the 90-m.p.h., highly technical thrill ride in recent decades. The East Germans now recruit the cream of their summer sprinters for the event's crucial 50-meter running start. The U.S. has moved slowly to catch up. Long controlled by several venerable clubs around Lake Placid, U.S. bobsledding has become parochial and, some critics claim, possibly racist. Efforts to add speedier newcomers have prompted tensions. Blacks, notably Gold Medalist Hurdler Willie Davenport, who competed in 1980, have not been warmly welcomed to the chill upstate New York Olympic site. But the prime reason for America...
...Olympics? This could be your best bet.) Stanford University Junior Bonny Warner, the top woman slider on the improving squad, had never heard of luge four years ago. She won a magazine contest to be a 1980 Olympic flame carrier and on a lark attended a Lake Placid luge development camp. One ride did it: "I was just a maniac for the sport," she says. "I couldn't get enough." After she was hooked, though, the problem was getting enough money. Until this season she had to scratch as much as $4,000 together each year for equipment...