Word: placidness
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...sports were characterized by what the players wore, a lot of them would have disappeared long ago. What is so at tractive about those--whatever they are--that wrestlers wear? What about the blue Lost-in-Space costume Eric Heiden blitzed around in at Lake Placid? If all sports with strange uniforms were outflawed, the only one left would be polo. Oh yes, and probably the Lady Dolphins...
Phil's triumph over his friend Stenmark, gold medal winner in the giant slalom at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics, had been a long time coming. He was second to Stenmark in World Cup points in 1978, and third for each of the past two seasons. No one on the ski tour doubted that this likable, easygoing American had the ability or the courage to win. He had gritted out last year's third-place finish, and a silver medal in slalom at Lake Placid, on an ankle shattered the year before and still mending...
...sprung up between Eilat, at the top of the Gulf of Aqaba, and Sharm el Sheikh, near the Sinai's southern tip. The new spas, havens for Israeli tourists, foreign sightseers and hippies, are tolerant to a degree unheard of in Israel. Sunbathers routinely strip naked on the placid beaches. Hashish, smuggled from Egypt, is freely available. Many of the Israeli hoteliers and other developers would like to stay on after April 1982, but the Egyptian entrepreneurs waiting in the wings have resisted all proposals to set up possible joint ventures because they figure they will simply take over...
...while others received the medals. Santee, 23, finished fourth in last year's Winter Olympics; Hamilton, 22, placed fifth. And so it has been since the two began competing in the mid-'70s. But all three of last year's Olympic medal winners retired after Lake Placid, and suddenly the old rivalry between Hamilton and Santee took on new drama: they could be the world's best, but in what order...
...second half was placid by comparison, for at least the first 15 minutes. The pace slowed down considerably when Brown lifted its full-court pressure, and both teams played even, heads-up ball with the lead trading back and forth every 20 seconds...