Word: slalomed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rink at all. They built two rinks and a bobsled run. They also cut a road up a mountain previously traversed only by Tito's Nazi-fighting partisans, and they built hotels, cross-country ski trails and a network of chair lifts to newly hacked-out downhill and slalom courses. They did it all for $125 million and produced a tidy, if not quite Los Angeles-size profit of $10 million...
Freshmen Per Arne Weiner and Dave Wood finished 34th and 42nd in the giant slalom and Weiner was 30th in the slalom. Senior Bill Kealey came in 44th...
...took fourth and twelth in the nordic events and second in-the nordic relay and had two top to finishers in both the slalom and go on slalom...
Harvard took both Alpine events behind the brilliant performances of Freshmen Per-Arne Weiner and Dave Wood. Weiner won both the giant slalomlom of Friday and the slalom on Saturday, while Wood placed fourth and third, respectively, in the two events...
...later, after Louganis had won his gold and Ron Merriott, 24, of the U.S. had followed Tan Liangde's silver with a bronze, springboard diving gave way to platform competition. The contrast is sharp and fascinating. The best parallel in sport may be to skiing. Springboard diving, like slalom racing, requires great agility and tuning as the diver catches the flex of the board and rides it for maximum spring. Platform diving is like downhill racing, a dangerous, gut-sucking plunge that seems insane to onlookers and sometimes to participants. The concrete platform, of course, does not bounce...