Word: skying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city, at a cost of $31 million, the largest expenditure ever for the Winter Games. From the breathtaking downhill course carved in the side of Mount Eniwa to the giant 50,000-seat Makomanai Speed-Skating Rink, Sapporo is a wintersports wonderland. After one launching off the steeply sculpted ski jump on Mount Okura, one jumper exclaimed: "You feel as though you're going to fly right over the city...
Amid all the pomp at Sapporo last week, one troubling circumstance lingered on: the usual controversy over "shamateurism." Once again Avery Brundage, the crusty old president of the International Olympic Committee, railed against the evils of commercialism. And once more the Federation Internationale de Ski (F.I.S.) was unimpressed. This time, though, Brundage seemed more intent than ever on disqualifying most of the world's top skiers for violating the I.O.C. rule against endorsing equipment. Armed with a stack of incriminating ads, he thundered: "When the skiers allow their photographs or their names to be used to promote ski products...
...week-long pre-Christmas training camp, the ski team voted sophomores Ben Steele (alpine) and Ken Willis (nordic) this year's team captains...
...Steele, though banned from varsity competition by a rule which made freshmen ineligible, proved himself a threat last year in the Eastern Alpine circuit, with a third place in the prestigious Louise Orvis Race and a fourth at the Great George Invitational, winning over members of the U.S. Olympic Ski Team...
...Ski touring represents a return to the way people skied before skiing got fancy. Scandinavians have been wild about cross-country for centuries, and even in such strongholds of downhill skiing as Switzerland and Italy, the sport has caught on remarkably in the past few years. Enthusiasts break their own trails through any convenient field or forest, skirting icy ponds, clambering over fences. Even for novices, a ten-mile trek is routine. Ski touring is much easier to learn than the alpine version: a beginner can pick up all he needs to know in a day or so, while downhill...