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...Lake Placid standards, Squaw Valley was a modest outing indeed. There were fewer events (27 vs. 38), athletes (700 vs. 1,400) and journalists (600 vs. 3,200). The cost was a mere $20 million (nearly $50 million in today's dollars), compared with $178 million for the 1980 festival...
...piddling $50,000 for the broadcast rights, was slow to line up sponsors for its 15 scheduled hours of live and taped reports. It was a far cry from the electronic blanket that today threatens to suffocate the Games. ABC paid $15.5 million for the rights to Lake Placid, and will spend nearly $25 million more to cover the competition. Some 800 ABC employees, more people than competed in 1960, will be on hand. An estimated 180 million Americans will watch some portion of the 51½ hr. of coverage...
...speed events. Sadly, though, many 1980 Olympians may wind up remembering the sacrifice more than the joy. Says Pitou, now a travel agent: "The kids aren't having fun any more. They're training to death." The real winners may not be the ones who leave Lake Placid with gold but the ones who take away golden memories. Speed Skater Bill Disney won only a silver at Squaw Valley, but no matter. "It was beautiful," he says. "There will never be another Olympics like...
Unless fate or a dark horse intervenes, Stenmark should leave Lake Placid with one gold medal, and possibly two. In his specialty, the giant slalom (a zigzag race through 30 or more gates), he is virtually unbeatable. In 1978-79, he won this race all ten times it was staged in World Cup competition; this season he is three for three. In the slalom (a shorter, steeper course with more gates and sharper turns), his win rate approaches 50%. Says Phil Mahre, his friend and rival: "He is really a fantastic skier, especially on a steep course. He changes edges...
Europe's premiere skiers will be gunning for the graceful Swede at Lake Placid. His chief competition figures to come from Andreas Wenzel, 21, of Liechtenstein, who stands second in World Cup points this year. Others to be watched, in addition to America's Mahre, are three swift Swiss: Jacques Luethy, Peter Müller and Peter Lüscher, who won the World Cup last year. Wenzel's sister Hanni, 23, the current World Cup leader, is heavily favored in the women's slaloms She will be tested by Annemarie Moser...