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...just incidentally, ski slopes, bobsled runs and skating rinks. Because of the tragedy at Munich in 1972, where eleven Israeli competitors and coaches died in the wake of an attack by Palestinian terrorists, security has been a paramount consideration. That meant building an Olympic Village seven miles from Lake Placid, accessible to vehicles only via a narrow forest road and surrounded by double chain-link fences 12 ft. high that send out an alarm at the slightest touch. With its narrow-windowed dormitories, the village bears an unfortunate resemblance to a prison; it will, indeed, become a minimum-security federal...
...construction, and despite the fact that some 50,000 people are expected to swarm into Lake Placid during every day of competition, the 1980 Games involved no large-scale dislocation of the town's citizens, as happened in Montreal during the 1976 Summer Games. To be sure, a certain amount of displacement has occurred. A young clerk for the Lake Placid Organizing Committee was bumped from her $300-a-month apartment so that the landlord could rent it during February to wealthy snow bunnies for $4,000. Another story making the rounds has houses being purchased...
Ironically, the U.S. put on its finest performance in Winter Olympic Games in 1932?at Lake Placid. That year Americans carried away four gold medals in speed skating and two in bobsledding, as well as four silvers and two bronzes in other events. This year, for the first tune in the history of the Games, the U.S. has strong contenders in most sports, and in one, speed skating, a brother and sister alone who could win more gold medals than U.S. athletes have ever managed to collect in a single Winter Games. With a bit of luck, the town that...
...cost of gold has skyrocketed too, but Tiffany, the New York jeweler commissioned to design and strike medals for the Games, agreed to supply them at 1978 prices. The designers hit a snag, however, when they submitted their sketches: the Lake Placid Organizing Committee responded with a veto. The reason: the medals' obverse side showed the rolling Adirondack Mountains, but not the peak where one of the committee members owned a farm. The medals were redesigned and the mountains were shifted. The medal winners of 1980 will always have a view of one committeeman's homesite...
HOCKEY. For Lake Placid, the U.S. Olympic Hockey Association decided to get its act together and take it on the road. Last summer a 26-man team was culled from the country's hockey hotbeds (16 from Minnesota, six from Massachusetts, two each from Michigan and Wisconsin), then sent off on a grueling, 61 -game schedule (the National Hockey League regular season schedule is only 80 games). Coach Herb Brooks' team is a long shot, especially in the face of a superb Soviet squad, for the first hockey gold medal since the 1960 team pulled its stunning upset...