Word: skater
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...childhood polio. Poised and sure in her dark rose sweater, red flowers bright against her bobbed blonde hair, she swung into her free-skating routine. Gliding to the beat of a bright Offenbach medley, she picked up speed and leaped into a stag (a twisting jump in which the skater takes off backwards, turns, and sails forward, back arched and trailing leg extended...
Despite the "Russians smiling at Americans" observed by Skater Jenkins, international rhubarbs kept Olympic diplomats exercised. The Soviet's state-subsidized "amateurs" tried some gamesmanship, hinted that Canadian hockey players were pros. Everyone wanted to start first in the men's giant slalom, before the course was all cut up. An Italian-German hockey game ended in a brawl...
Leaning low over the blue-white ice of Lake Misurina, the Soviet skater was a study in scowling concentration. Forgotten was the happy camaraderie of stadium ceremony. This was why he had spent bleak, cold years of practice back home at Alma-Ata, this was why he and his Olympic teammates had come to Cortina: to whip the world...
Like every other Russian at Cortina, Moscow Speed-Skater Grishin, an engraver by trade, was honed to a fine edge. At Oslo, four years ago, the Soviets held off their Olympic entry because they knew they had yet to catch the West in winter sports. Now they were ready. Skiers had trained through their long winters, developed daring techniques on the jumps, stamina and speed in grinding crosscountry going. As for Grishin and his fellow skaters, they had raced and raced and raced more, until their thick thighs looked deformed with ropes of muscle...
...meter dash in 0:40.2, a new world's record. Split seconds slower, a pair of his teammates finished second and fourth. In the 5,000-meter dash, Russian Construction Engineer Boris Shilkov did almost as well, shattered the Olympic record with a 7:48.7 victory. No U.S. skater scored; as in other events, U.S. contestants were doing very badly...