Word: slingshots
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...establish a new Olympic record of 38:03 sec., 1.14 sec. faster than the mark achieved in Innsbruck by Kulikov. The Soviet, who finished in 38.37, had to settle for the silver. Heiden said later that he felt almost as though he had been fired out of a slingshot when he came through the final turn. It was one of the great moments of the Olympics' first week...
...into the turns) decreases and drivers of the two-and four-man sleds must steer onto the proper line within a fraction of a second or risk a crash. In one turn, dubbed "Shady," the sleds are whipped through a 150° turn that drops 36 ft. The resulting slingshot effect pushes the sleds up to 75 m.p.h. and subjects their crews to 4.5-G stresses (astronauts experience 5 Gs at blast-off). According to one driver, crewmen have blacked out on the Lake Placid course...