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Zacmanis, '97, Shines at the Salt Lake Olympics
By Ann Mary Quarandillo
Latvian bobsled
team. Photo by Joe Kitihara, Studio 103 Imaging.
At noon on the last Saturday of the 2002
Winter Olympics, more than 15,000 people trudge upward along the
bobsleigh track at Utah Olympic Park, jostling for good vantage
points. Swiss fans carry four-foot-tall cowbells that ring out
across the mountain. Packs of American kids shout for their parents
to keep up. Germans, Japanese, Mexicans, Canadians, and British
offer each other a hand. The shuttle (or the tour bus, or, if they
were really brave, their own cars) had dropped them off at Utah
Olympic Park six miles from Park City, but the parking lots spread
out from the base of a 6,880-foot mountain. The spectators have
three hours of climbing and waiting before the four-man bobsleigh
final begins. As they passed through security, they saw the ski
jumping venue almost a mile above them. The bobsleigh track snaked
4,380 feet above that, one of the highest-altitude tracks in the
world. (more...)
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