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...LAKE PLACID, N.Y.--Skating its way closer and closer to a coveted gold medal, the United States Olympic Hockey team dismantled the Romanians last night at Lake Placid 7-2, to remain unbeaten in Olympic competition...
...Eighty-one at Zigzag! Eighty-one at Zigzag!" The announcer, alerted by spotters, booms a coded warning over the public address system. Even before his echoing voice has died away, safety and medical personnel sprint into action. A bobsled has crashed on the Lake Placid Olympic run, the longest, fastest, most difficult and dangerous racing course of its kind in the world. Zigzag, an S turn that slams sleds at nearly 70 m.p.h. through two 60° turns in 335 ft., has claimed yet another victim...
...runs in December, there have been 55 crashes along the mile-long course with its high-banked turns, lightning-fast straightaways and narrow chutes. Miraculously, the worst injuries have been only a couple of broken collarbones and one broken ankle. But for all its speed and treachery, the Lake Placid run is a bobsledder's dream. Says Jim Gragg, manager of the bobsled run recreation area: "The drivers have the greatest respect for this run. They know that it's dangerous, but they also know that they can run it very fast...
...sleds are whipped through a 150° turn that drops 36 ft. The resulting slingshot effect pushes the sleds up to 75 m.p.h. and subjects their crews to 4.5-G stresses (astronauts experience 5 Gs at blast-off). According to one driver, crewmen have blacked out on the Lake Placid course...
...will to win; Peggy Fleming's fluid elegance in the 1968 figure-skating finals in Grenoble; Jean-Claude Killy's domination of the slopes in the same Games as he won all three alpine gold medals for la gloire de France. Before the events at Lake Placid draw to a close on Sunday, Feb. 24, they will have created moments of pure gold. Key events to watch on ABC television (all times E.S.T.; check local listings...