Word: skis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what ruled the roost at Innsbruck, Grenoble and Sapporo were those weird foreign sports, athletic events I could never comprehend. What do those middle two men do in the four-man bobsled? How does one ever learn to ski jump? I imagine one is either very good after the first jump or else very dead...
This does not seem to be the case for our winter Olympic friends. And so the fabulous footage of downhill racers disappearing into groves of trees, or luge drivers sailing off a bank of glare ice into the Austrian sunset, or ski jumpers Evil Kneivling their way to the hospital, has made me reluctant to embrace the winter games...
...Harvard ski team captured second place overall in the Franklin Pierce Invitational on Friday at Mt. Watatic in Ashby, while Radcliffe downhillers finished in the middle of the pack in their meet this weekend...
...Radcliffe ski team took third in the slalom and fourth in the giant slalom in a WISC (Women's Intercollegiate Ski Conference) meet on Saturday and Sunday at Mt. Southington in Connecticut...
...East Germans also did well. On Saturday, they won six out of nine possible medals in three different events, including first places in the men's and women's single luge and the 70-meter ski jump...