Word: sport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...team was considerably grimmer than the Americans, and for a good but unusual reason: it had too much talent. In fact, so strong were the Austrians that Franz Klammer did not even make the team. In 1976, Klammer's run in Innsbruck had instantly become a classic of sport-a headlong, fanatical plunge of almost mystical recklessness and desire. But the following year, Klammer's younger brother Klaus, also a racer, fell so badly that he will probably be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. After that, some critical edge of aggressiveness departed from...
There is little camaraderie in ski racing, an individual's sport, and the three who were thus not assured of starting were grumblingly bitter. "We didn't want to do it that way," Grissmann said later. "We eventually agreed with the team leadership, but that was the day we lost confidence in it." Said Walcher: "I went along because I did not want to ruin the rest of my racing career, but I did not like it." In the end, Walcher was the odd man out, and Stock boomed down Whiteface on the last training run with...
They did. The young Americans stunned the hockey world last night and took a giant step towards this country's first Olympic gold medal in the sport since 1960 by upsetting the more experienced Soviets, 4-3, in an emotion-filled contest in Lake Placid last night...
...opinion before his sister--competed in the ice dancing preliminaries, where she later placed seventh. Reluctant to admit his sister was the best ice dancer in the United States, he was anxious to talk about how hard it is for American skaters to break into this traditinally European-dominated sport. "You gotta pay your dues," Blumberg said as the Russian champions executed their figures on the ice with an almost sterile precision...
...came crumbling in on the Harvard wrestlers Saturday afternoon when a spotty but cunning Springfield squad marched right over the Crimson for a 37-7 slaughter. The loss was the third in a row for the matmen, who, thanks to a string of early season victories, still sport a 10-5-1 record...