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...quelled their tendency to airy improvisation, and they have succeeded against considerable odds in transforming an amiable Balkan backwater into a cred ible third-rank winter resort. This is a lot higher up in the rankings than any visitor to the grim and snowless 1980 Olympics would place Lake Placid, N.Y. (First-rank resorts like Saint-Moritz or Sun Valley generally don't want the Olympics these days. Why disrupt an already profitable business...
Some snow-removal equipment has been brought from Austria and Switzerland, but a big dump of snow could shatter even the Olympic omnilingual outdoor cursing record set four years ago at Lake Placid, during a work stoppage by bus drivers hired for the Games. Transportation of live spectators is admittedly not a high-priority matter. Any Winter Olympics is and should be a TV spectacle...
Watching soccer is the big sport here, and smoking in cafes and schmoozing about soccer are the big winter sports. It is true that Bojan Krizaj, the flashy blond who finished fourth at Lake Placid in the giant slalom, is something of a hero, and that no one can be found who does not expect him to win a gold medal. That would be nice, in the local view, but if Krizaj succeeds, he will not get a hotel of his own, as Austrian ski heroes do. This is Bosnia, after all, and Krizaj is a miserable Slovenian...
...mush the next, who will believe that just about the best in the world at the moment is someone from Colorado named Kerry Lynch? Vermonter Jeff Hastings, one of those ski-jumping birdmen only casually acquainted with gravity, won a World Cup event in December at Lake Placid. Not only are hopes high, but the cause for hope is real and a bit exhilarating (see following stories...
...land of Peggy Fleming, Dorothy Hamill, Carol Heiss and Tenley Albright, the silver-medal performance by Linda Fratianne at Lake Placid four years ago was considered a slip-up (the gold went to East German Anett Potzsch). But it is not standard for U.S. women to be fighting among themselves the way they are now; so evenly, that is. Sumners beat Zayak in the 1982 nationals, only to have Zayak rebound a few weeks later at the Worlds, and a sequined hair-pull has been in progress ever since...