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...word at Vermont's Winter Carnival, as everywhere else on the eastern seaboard, is snow. There isn't any, so Harvard's cross-country ski team packed its boards and headed for the Lake Placid Olympics site for cross country skiing...
...think expelling the Soviet Union from the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid as well as boycotting the Summer Games in Moscow [Jan. 21] would be a good idea...
...another site, and that in any case the I.O.C. is obligated to fulfill its 1974 contract with the Soviet Union for the Moscow Games. U.S. officials nonetheless plan to ask the I.O.C. to take up the question of moving the Summer Games at its next scheduled meeting, at Lake Placid, N.Y., early next month. But the request will almost certainly be turned down. Said a top I.O.C. official: "Those who believe that there will be no Moscow Games are the victims of wishful thinking. So far, all our national committees are against [any change...
...Winter Games in Lake Placid, N.Y., next month, the International Olympic Committee's medical commission is determined to keep competition "clean" this time around. Says William Shuler, a former Canadian armed forces officer who will be director of medical services at Lake Placid: "Anyone who might be considering using drugs should be warned. He's more than likely to get caught...
Dugal and Bertrand expect such incidents to be the exception, however, even though they will be using vastly more sensitive equipment than in Montreal. During the 1976 Games, 2,049 tests produced only eleven positives, eight of which were for anabolic steroids. A similarly small tally at Lake Placid would please Dugal. Says he: "We're not there so much to catch people using drugs as to discourage them from doing so. I'd be happy if we didn't get a single positive reading...