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...going to have to struggle to stay in Division I," nordic captain Eric Nordel said yesterday. "If we don't get any snow between now and the Middlebury carnival (in three weeks), they'll probably hold the jumping at Lake Placid again...
This scenario is not the product of an avid Hollywood scriptwriter. It is a grim projection by British experts who know only too well that the apparently placid Thames can turn with little warning into a terrifying torrent. To forestall the disaster that a "worst case" Thames flood would produce, British engineers are rushing to complete by the end of 1982 an extraordinary project: a giant, movable steel and concrete flood barrier that in normal circumstances will allow the passage of large ships but rise up during flood threats to block the menacing waters...
Even while Lake Placid proceeded, the American trajectory away from Moscow seemed unalterable. U.S. participation in the Summer Games has become more or less unthinkable, unless the Soviets withdraw their forces from Afghanistan in the next few months. That is improbable. So is the possibility, now being discussed, of moving the Games from Moscow to some other city, or postponing them. Jimmy Carter has committed the prestige of his presidency to the boycott. Having ineffectually lectured the Soviets last fall about their troops in Cuba, he cannot now fail to make an Olympic boycott stick, especially in a presidential election...
...Next week, after a 5,000-mile flight from the Peloponnesian Peninsula to Athens to the U.S., and a 780-mile relay run from the Virginia Tidewater to the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, the Olympic flame will ignite a huge torch on a pedestal at the Lake Placid High School. With that, the 13th Olympic Winter Games "will be officially under way. In 1932, tiny Lake Placid (pop. 3,300) played host to the first Olympic Games ever held on American soil. Nearly five decades later, the same village, now even smaller (pop. 2,997), is bracing...
...TORCH is at Lake Placid. They carried it all the way from Olympia for the first time in the history of American Olympic Games, and nobody would have known the difference if they had lit it with a bic. But the authenticity of the Olympic tradition--and the universal respect that this tradition elicits, has suddenly been threatened by the United States. The Olympics are an endangered species--a venerated institution that represents more than athletic competition...