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...Television tunnel-visions the real Olympics, the stuff that goes on in the streets. Stop for a second and two U.S. ski team members walk by. They are celebrities and they flaunt it, waving at everyone, smiling at all the women. There is music blaring from the speed skating rink. There are scalpers everywhere. You just want to know everyone here-all the athletes and athlete lovers and students...
Everyone sees Eric. It is cool just to be in the same town with him. The people who don't have tickets for his events lean against the fence around the speed skating rink like refugees, shouting desperately every time he circles by. They love him madly; he is a hero. And it is clear that he loves them back. "Good luck, Eric," a random fan calls out as he whizzes by on a trial run, and Eric literally stops dead in his tracks and spins around and squints up at the crowd in the direction of the voice...
...these guys have been at it a while. They'd have to fall on their faces to get scores that are lower then anyone else's," he stated. And then in his cynical, croaking voice, never having looked at the rink during the Soviet performance, he predicted what score each of the nine judges would bestow on the unsmiling, cool and controlled Russian skaters...
...Before rink announcer John Phillips could wet his lips, the red light shone again as Dave Burke took a Murray pass and converted it into his seventh goal of the season a mere five seconds later...
Turner lifted the puck over B.C. freshman goaltender Bob O'Connor, sending the Garden--particularly the noisy N.U. contingent--into a frenzy. The cheering did not abate long after Turner and Co. had circled the rink in a gleeful victory celebration, and captain Dave Archimbault had captured the tourney...