Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that's not enough, you get free beer, soda, and pretzels just for coming down and taking a look. Your sports career begins tonight at 7:30, or, if you're going to the hockey game, catch us tomorrow at the same time. It's an offer that you just can't turn down. See you around the Crimson, sport...
...pursuer-an overwhelming margin of victory in a race where finishers are clustered within hundredths of a second. For Mueller, 21, fiancé of the 1,500-meter silver medalist Leah Poulos, the victory was the payoff for 15 years of gruelling training. "He's crazy about this sport," says Poulos. "Peter can never stop working. He just can't be bad at anything he does." Says Mueller simply: "I just love to go fast...
Representing a nation of fewer than 17 million citizens, the East German team placed second to the Russians in total medals. The only sport in which they had no impact was alpine skiing. "Contrary to what one sometimes reads in the West," explained one East German official, "we don't shoot our athletes at dawn if they fail to win. Socialism is identical with competition." What he meant was that in East Germany, sport is a political device to gain prestige abroad and keep up national morale. Highly organized programs identify promising athletes at an early age. And East...
...around Innsbruck's Olympic Stadium last week, Figure-Skating Coach Carlo Fassi kept the uniforms of several nations on hand and changed colors midway through events. "I go like crazy," he explained. "I'm everywhere." Everywhere Fassi was last week, there seemed to be gold. In a sport where most coaches would be satisfied to guide just one competitor into the Olympics, the ubiquitous Fassi brought four skaters to the Winter Games and left with two gold-medal winners: America's Dorothy Hamill and Britain's John Curry. The double victory confirmed what many people...
...Italian transplanted to Denver, Fassi, 46, is the Pied Piper of his sport: a community of 35 skaters, plus in some cases their entire families, have migrated to study with him inside the green sheet-metal walls of the Colorado Ice Arena, of which he is part owner. The Fassi tribe includes skaters from the U.S., Italy, Finland, Britain, Yugoslavia and Sweden-plus several Russians who have come for briefer consultations. All pay $9 for 20 minutes worth of Fassi's wisdom. Most think it is a bargain. "I owe 75% of my gold medal to Carlo," says Dorothy...