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Show E6 TheSalt Lake Tribune Klammerrefocused the Olym pics on sport with an unforget- table downhill run that wona gold medal for himself and the homefolks. Klammer’s dramatic run becamethe most lasting visual image of the Games, because, as Sports Il- lustrateddescribedit, “never hadhe runa raceteetering so consistentlyon the.edge of di- Thursday, November22, 2001 of Olympic cities, where the desire for peace is most keenly while, athletes from the People’s Republic of China felt. Sarajevo was the first city marched into the Winter Olympics for thefirst time. Then camethe logistical from a developing country to stage a Winter Olympics. Despite Yugoslavia’s flagging economy, Sarajevans embarked on building andrebuilding projects to prepare problems. The ticket administration Was @ mess; some customers who hadordered tickets through the mail never got them. Onestate official told the local paper,“Ifthis were for the Olympics. Unlike most Olympichostcities, they actually wound up reducingtheir saster.” On the women almost achievedthecoveted triple crown that Sailer arid Killy hadwon. 10-yearveteran onthe World Cupcircuit, Mittermaier won the downhill and slalom to get in position for thehat trick, but then she lost thegiant ym by a mere hundredthsofa second to anada’s Kathy Kreiner. Eric Heiden United States Speedskating original estimated budget by about15 percent through the early completion of construc- tion projects and the canceling of others. The Sarajevo Games Won ailfive men’s events;all in, Olympic-record time, and achieved unmatched featoffive individual gold medals in a single Olympics. reported no red ink. Eager to proveto their visi- Marja-Liisa Hamalainen Finland Nordic skiing The United States had a fruitful Olympics, winning 10 medals, three of them by speed: skater Sheila Young. But the not the Olympics andit was some private groupdoing this, most notable were the gold wewouldhaveclosed them Wonall three of the women’sindividual downayear ago.” cross-country races medal wonby Dorothy Hamill in women’s figure skating and theincredible silver won by Bill Koch in the 30-kilometer. cross-country ski race, the only medal everwonin that sport by an American 1980 LakePlacid In the Winter Games’last visit to the United les beSalt LakeCity,thelittle v age in the Adirondacks e for perhaps servedas the the most memor ble team and in Winter the United id pleasedifthose athletic moments were their onlylegacy all else about these Games vas forgotten. These werea troubled Olympics, politically and logistically, and some ofthe 3,000 residents ofthe upstate New York town must havebeenleft wondering why th sb Andthat wasnot the worst and a bronzein the telay. Came back 10 of it; the transportation system was, Becauseof limited road access into thevillage,the or- years later, at the age of 38, and won a bronzein the 30K. ganizersplanned to shuttle in ticket-holders from parking lots about 10 miles outside of town.But,for thefirst week of the Games,alack of both tors from the developed world that they were capableof organizing a spectacle on sucha largescale as the Olympics, the Yugoslavians drew widespread praisefor their efficiency and congeniality. They pulled it off, in spite of a fourday snowstorm that arrived buses and logistical expertise left hundredsof people strandedat parking lots or venuesfor hoursat a time in freezing cold. Still, the bus systemgotthe athletes to their spots at the early in the Gamesand forced several of Al appointed time, and the Olympiansfilled their roles superb- ly, especially Heiden and the hockeyplayers. While Heiden sweptall fiveof the men’ speedskatingraces, the U.S. hockey team put together its ‘Associated PressFile Photo 1984 Sarajevo “MiracleonIce,” reachedits c the game was nottelevised live in the UnitedStates (it began at 5 p.m. EST),it remains the Sarajevo’s city leaders yearnedto host the Winter Olympics so they might fulfill their destiny as a wintersports tourism center. But, of out of the running. In theyears leading upto 1980, the organizing committee hadbee! plagued by construc- ish Balkan war ofthe early Games, the Olympic community remembered its warm 1990sleft Sarajevo decimated. hosts of 1984. The IOC sent a Manyofthe sites of Olympic: joy in 1984 wereleft in ruins delegation there, and the Norwegians hadalready launched the Olympic Aid program to help children in the besieged city. Athletes from the ’84 Gameshavereturned to help. individually as well. Andso, Sarajevois the most poignant within a decade. In its period ofloss and recovery, Sarajevo’s identity as an Olympic city wasnotfor- most exhilarating momentfor course, the post-Olympic fate gotten. At the 1994 Lilleham- the UnitedStates in Winter of the Bosniancity of 450,000 Olympic history. was muchdifferent. The hell- mer Games, marking the 10th anniversary of Sarajevo’s “Or get % and increasing fi(Theyended up during. our Moscow inthe wakeof the Soviet Union’sinvasionof Aftoe stan. With President 's threat of an American bors“ott of the Summer Games hanging over its head, the IOC declaredontheeve ofthe Lake Placid Gamesthat the Moscow Olympics would go on. Since Carter had given the Soviets until Feb. 20 to with- pine gold medals for Ameri- cansBill Johnson, Debbie his son’sbirth, Phil Mahre; and multiple-medal efforts by Nordic skiers Gunde Svan and Marja-Liisa Hamalainen. NORDIC FLEECE eral government.) But, forall the IOC to moveor postpone the 1980 SummerOlympicsin Witt and Scott Hamilton; AlArmstrong and, on the day of ANTI-PEEL/ PRINTS / SOLIDS half of that provided by thefed- of State Cyrus skal ing triumphsby Katarina LARGEST SELECTION IN UTAH at almost $170 million, about those woes, things only got worse whenthe Olympics came to town. At the IOC s preceding the Gam and Christopher Dean;figure FRIDAY - SATURDAY ONLY; interest for one year* eral inquiry, letic achievements: the string of 6.0s for the nonpareil British ice dancers JayneTorvill ~”FABRIC CENTERS Javon Saveupto 1980 hosting rights at a 1974 10Cmeeting after the four other bidcities had dropped pine ski races. ‘The Sarajevo Games were Eric Heiden of Madison, Wis., races towards a win in the 500-meter speedskating eventat the spiced with memorableathLake Placid Games: He wasclocked at 38.03 in a Games plaguedbylogistical problems. 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