Word: sportingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their share of competitive skating, though. Aside from the Hungarian title, Regoczy and Sallay were the silver medalists in the 1977 European Championships, the fourth-place team in the 1976-77 World Championships, and the fifth-place team in the Montreal Olympics, competing in ice dancing in the sport's first year at the Olympic games...
...season of racing competition at any level is not just plain fun for these men. Racing requires money, a fact of life that leads to conflicts between their personal politics and the world of racing. "It's a frightening sport. You've got to do everything big money demands to get it," Medenica explains. "A lot of people who are big in racing are big-time fascists. Even in Europe, road-racing itsn't necessarily considered right-on. There's a lot of politics in racing, and for the most part, I don't agree with...
...United States, road racing types are a lot more liberal," Medenica says. "I don't try to justify it anymore, because I know it satisfies me." Aronson admits to a "constant struggle" between his politics and his racing involvement, but for now he says his commitment to the sport remains strong...
...supervise the fund-raising and mechanical aspects of the team, but the really essential member is 23-year-old Herne, whose hair-raising driving exploits earned him the sobriquet "Hero" at the beginning of the season. A soft-spoken native of Williamstown, Mass., Herne is so devoted to the sport that he poured all of his savings into the team. Currently, Herne's finances are so tight that he is forced to sleep on a friend's couch. He is now looking for a job to help meet expenses for next year. Herne says that like every racing driver...
...obscurity of Formula Ford races. The two entrepreneurs will also seek patrons wherever possible. Medenica's commitment to the effort is complete--he says he decided to attend Business. School in order to make enough money to keep racing. The search for sponsorship, like almost everything else in the sport, will be time-consuming and expensive, but all three are willing to make the effort. "The struggling artist analogy is appropriate," Aronson says...