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...alpine skiers were paced by Kristin Hodgkin's top fifteen placing in the giant slalom but the slalom proved the Crimson's undoing as Hodgkins and Kerry Laing-Ronay toppled and senior captain Vera Fajtova placed 28th. Overall Harvard dropped to ninth place with 74 points in the team standings...
Whatever the fate of this summer's Moscow Games, the winter competition seems secure. All told, 37 countries will send athletes to the Games: the downhill demons and slalom masters from Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy and France; the hockey magicians from the Soviet Union, Canada, Czechoslovakia and Sweden; the spectacular speed skaters from East Germany and the U.S.S.R.; high-flying figure skaters from Britain and Russia; the ski jumpers from any country with athletes crazy and courageous enough to think they can hurtle off a 257-ft. tower and land without breaking every bone in their bodies. And in most...
...with something like 14 million skiers in the U.S., Americans have won just 13 medals, four of them golds, out of a possible 135 in the Olympic downhill, slalom and giant slalom and just one of 168 in cross-country events. No American man has ever won a gold medal in skiing. In the downhill and giant slalom, no American man has ever won a medal of any kind...
Kristen Hodgkins led the Crimson effort with her 14th place in the slalom, but the rest of the team had difficulties ranging from simple "bad days" to competing with the best of the East...
Senior captain Vera Fajtova explained, "I just didn't ski that fast, finished around 30th in the slalom, and somewhere around there in the giant slalom...