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Meanwhile, subsisting pretty much on their U.S.O.C. allowances, the biathletes (annual team allotment: $60,000) buy most of their own bullets and the luge racers ($90,000) their own sleds. The cost of a sled is between $800 and $1,000, and literally anyone who could demonstrate the ability to get from the top to the bottom without mortal injury was eligible to enter pre-Olympic competition; there are ten places on the Olympic team (seven men and three women, no doubles competition among women). Finishing twelfth in the Olympics still qualifies as a triumph for an American sliding downhill...
...Harvard attack was the offensive line, which used its 23-lb.-per-player advantage to drive the Quakers off the ball. "It was like a sled-roll all day," Caron said...
...love the smell of Malamute in the morning!" With this glad cry, Donald Quinelle (Robin Williams) mushes his dog sled through the snows of New England, eager for his climactic battle with an enemy who, like Donald, has surrendered to the fantasy that violent action, backed by deadly skills in the martial arts, is a necessity for survival in America today. Too bad he has to call time out in their gunfight because he brought the wrong bullets with...
...North American Championship Sled Dog Race. For all you curiosity seekers, Fairbanks, Alaska, is the place to be this weekend for the 38th running of this prestigious event. The sledding takes off today, with 19 mushers vying for a total of $14,000 in prize money. The race culminates in Sunday's finale, a finishing heat of 30 miles. Early indications point to the North Pole's Marvin Kokrine as the favorite, but you never can tell which way the snow will blow...
Except for his proud Gallic nose, the author blends in. He dresses in native furs, cracks the whip expertly over his sled team, and gnaws blubbery popsicles in the glow of an igloo oil lamp. He falls into the rhythms of polar life and begins to view this white-on-white world through the eyes of an Inuit...