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With just over a munute left in the game, Crimson coach Billy Cleary pulled Hynes from the net, hoping that a sixth skater would get the icemen a goal. But Colgate goaltender Terry McSweeney came up with several clutch saves, and left Cleary shaking his head...
...brother of the top American skater sits in front of us, twisting around awkwardly to deliever a sermon on the politics of ice dancing. The awful truth: he predicts all the scores again and again, before his sister, Judy, and her dancing partner, Mike, perform. And when they do, they are oh-so-American. When they kiss in the middle of each figure, the crowd goes crazy with applause for cuteness. The American ice dancers were absolutely the cutest...
...meter race, Speed Skater Beth Heiden, 20, had reason for hope as she flashed across the finish line in 2:13.10. She had just broken the Olympic record by 3.48 sec. The trouble: 17 other skaters also were to break the record. Beth ended up in seventh place as Annie Borchink, 28, a sturdy Dutch nursing student, glided off with the gold in a time of 2:10.95. But no one was hit by Heisenberg's Principle harder than the American pairs figure-skating team of Randy Gardner and Tai Babilonia. The Olympics' most touching moment...
...visitors feel welcome. The state police took their responsibilities so seriously that they hauled away an illegally parked car belonging to Art Devlin, vice president of the Lake Placid Organizing Committee, and another belonging to the FBI. Indeed, the citizens sometimes out-organized themselves. The mother of American Speed Skater Leah Poulos Mueller, who has sharpened her daughter's skates through 20 years of competition and two earlier Olympics, found herself banned from facilities at the rink, but a Lake Placid teenager let out of school for the grand holiday could wander in and stare at the stars...
Tomorrow's Olympic line-up will showcase American speed skater Eric Heiden, going for his third gold medal in the 1000-meter race. The third gold will equal the Olympic men's speed skating record last matched by Ard Schenk of the Netherlands...