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...Harvard Ski Team...
...Harvard ski team returned to Cambridge yesterday from the Bowdoin College Invitational Ski Race in Bethel, Maine with several strong performances. In men's action, Eric Albrecht took sixth place in giant slalom action while in the cross-country special, Bill Kealey earned seventh and Tim Allen garnered tenth. In the slalom race, Jeff Donahue took 'twelfth place and in the cross-country relay. Harvard finished second...
They may be the last real madmen as well. Lyle Nelson, 34, devotes himself to exasperating events that combine grueling cross-country races with marksmanship. Biathletes ski a demanding course, periodically halting to fire a .22-cal. rifle from 50 meters at small metal discs. Trying to steady on a target with a heart beating 200 times a minute from skiing is, says former U.S. Coach Art Stegen, "like a high jumper running a 5,000-meter race as an approach...
...screened "agony of defeat" image of a ski jumper blowing it on ABC'S Wide World of Sports is an ironically accurate one: Americans have not landed a medal in the 70-or 90-meter event since a 1924 bronze. In Sarajevo, all eyes will be on Finland's renowned Matti Nykanen. That is just fine with Jeff Hastings, 24, and Mike Holland, 22, both legitimate medal contenders. They have flown on their 16-lb. skis since their childhood days in Norwich, Vt. It was not a desire for the limelight that has had them flying. "Defying gravity...
...Nordic Combined might as well be a smorgasbord entree to most Americans, but it may become less exotic after Sarajevo. Many consider Coloradan Kerry Lynch, 26, the world's best at the event, which pairs a 15-km cross-country race with a 70-meter ski jump. Lynch hopes for an end to the sport's, and his own, obscuri ty. For the U.S. to take the gold away from the defending champion East Germans, he says, "would be like the South Pole coming up and winning the Super Bowl...