Word: skying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Having vowed to win the battle or be brought home on their skis, Harvard ski nomads Peter Carter and Ben Steele are finding out the price of being kamikazes in their attempt to crack the big time in the USSA Western Spring series...
...Tuesday afternoon, Harvard ski team captain Ben Steele stole into a paperback bookstore on Mass Ave. Why was he smiling so? With some advice whispered to him by a tan, dark-haired woman from Woodstock, Vt., he made his choice from the fiction rack. A glance at the titles before the salesman slipped the two slim tomes into a bag seemed a clue. If the titles did not exactly tell a tale, they hinted at one. Steele, ever the mild-mannered, wild blond-haired, slight-of-limb, mightily-muscled, bespectacled young hawk, tucked his new bought copies of Deliverance...
Somewhere in the minds of the officials who pick the Eastern and National ski teams in the United States is unshakably lodged a primal myth whose pattern must be adhered to or unspeakable demons and djinns might be loosed upon the ski world...
...essence this mythic pattern is a slightly milder version of competitive swimming's Wild in the Streets timetable: Win big early and keep on winning or you will find yourself consigned permanently to ski racer's limbo at a very early age. As a rule of thumb, the mileposts are these: undefeated in Torger Tokle and Junior racing circuits to the age of 16, win Something Big by 18, and only a World Cup win or Olympic medal will save you past the age of 21. Over 21 sir? Hand over your race bib and step right into Charon...
...Slalom at Sugarloaf Mountain. Their own championship--the final and most important qualifier for the Western Spring Series featuring European competitors off the World Cup circuit and members of the U.S. National Team--was won by the oldest man in the field, 25-year-old coach of the Harvard Ski team, Peter Carter...