Word: sapporo
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...televised in the U.S. in 16 years that will not be presided over by Jim McKay and the other familiar mainstays of ABC Sports. Thanks to a bid of $300 million for the rights, NBC is getting its first crack at an Olympics since the 1972 Winter Games in Sapporo, Japan. (Before the U.S. withdrew, NBC was scheduled to televise the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow...
...then again, Tony "Two-Ton" Tubbs was no Michelangelo's David either. When Tubbs fought Tyson in Japan a few moths ago, it looked like he had one too many pound of sushi and washed it down with a keg of Sapporo. But you couldn't remind Tony about his weight problem. He thought he could beat the champ...
...best ski competition of the Games in the women's and men's giant slaloms. The leader after the women's first run was Blanca Fernandez-Ochoa, a Spaniard (and, reporters told each other happily, a sometime bullfighter) whose brother Paco won the slalom at the '72 Games in Sapporo. Blanca, a powerful, driving skier, looked so strong that Spanish fans phoned to Calgary for champagne as they waited for the second...
Past Olympic Results Year Site Finish Coach 1984 Sarajevo, Yugoslavia Seventh Lou Vairo 1980 Lake Placid, NY First Herb Brooks 1976 Innsbruck, Austria Fourth Bob Johnson 1972 Sapporo, Japan Second Murray Williamson 1968 Grenoble, France Sixth Murray Williamson 1964 Innsbruck, Austria Fifth Eddie Jeremiah 1960 Squaw Valley, CA First Jack Riley 1956 Cortina, Italy Second John Mariucci 1952 Oslo, Norway Second Connie Pleban 1948 St. Moritz, Switz Fourth John Garrison 1936 Garmish, Germany Third Albert Prettyman 1932 Lake Placid, NY Second Alfred Winsor 1928 Not Represented 1924 Chamonix, France Second William Haddock 1920 Antwerp, Belgium (Unofficial) Second Ray Schooley
DIED. Ichiro Nakagawa, 57, Japan's youngest, most militantly right-wing 1982 prime-ministerial aspirant and a persistent champion of nuclear arms development for his country; by his own hand (he hanged himself with his kimono sash); in Sapporo. A colorful country boy who swaggered into the Diet's lower house in 1963, Nakagawa ten years later helped found the Seirankai, a secretive ultratraditional group whose 31 members helped one another gain clout in the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, including two Cabinet positions for Nakagawa. But after finishing fourth and last in November's election...