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...Lake Placid standards, Squaw Valley was a modest outing indeed. There were fewer events (27 vs. 38), athletes (700 vs. 1,400) and journalists (600 vs. 3,200). The cost was a mere $20 million (nearly $50 million in today's dollars), compared with $178 million for the 1980 festival...
...Squaw Valley: the very name was enough to unhinge the venerable geezers In the international Olympic movement 20 years ago. It simultaneously evoked the worst of California and the wild West, the depravity of Tinseltown and the dangers of the untamed frontier. When the remote resort in the Sierra Nevada was chosen as host of the 1960 Winter Games, one French official fretted: "How are we going to put our young men and women to bed at an early hour if there's a chorus line and Frankie Sinatra singing across the road...
...turned out, a terrific blizzard struck Squaw Valley just before the Games. No Gauls perished in the snow, despite the .fears of the French skiing official, but whether they made bed check is another matter (Sinatra was not there, but Danny Kaye and Red Skelton were...
...qualms, Squaw Valley, the last Winter Olympics held in the U.S., proved a rousing success. Except for the cross-country races, all the events were within walking distance of each other, giving the place an intimacy absent in most Olympics. In retrospect, Squaw Valley seems less commercial, truer to Olympic ideals, almost quaint. "It was the last of the small Olympics," says Penny Pitou, a U.S. skier who won two silver medals...
...real villain of Squaw Valley was a stretch of snow on the women's downhill course. Shooting down the steepest part of the run, skiers would suddenly hit a bumpy, hard-packed mound that sent them flying just as they reached a 90° bend, appropriately dubbed "the airplane corner." The high hopes of the American women crashed at that turn: Betsy Snite and two teammates spilled. Pitou did not fall, but she tottered, squandering precious ticks of the clock and losing the gold medal by 1 sec. to Germany's Heidi Biebl...