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Monday. February 21. 1994
SPORTS
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Olympic athletes compare to all-time greats
Bv DAVID CRARY
By DAVID CRART
Associated Press Writer
LILLEHAMMER, Norway — Forget the asterisks. Bonnie Blair and other Lillehammer superstars clearly belong among the all-time greats of the Winter Games.
If the interlude leading to these Games had been the traditional four years, rather than the one-time only two, who knows whether Blair, almost 30, would have been around to win her fourth Olympic gold medal.
Some upstart might have emerged to challenge Norway's speed skating king, Johann Olav Koss, or the all-conquering cross-country skiers, Norway's Bjorn Dahlie and Russia's Lvohy Egorova.
But Olympic historians and commentators dismiss the speculation. These athletes have won consistent-
ly, under immense pressure, against probably the highest caliber of competition in the history of their sports.
"Bonnie Blair would win any time, any place," Bud Greenspan, veteran producer of Olympic documentary films said.
Koss's awesome 10,000-meter victory yesterday earned him his four career gold medal and his third world-record gold at Lillehammer.
To surpass Heiden's gold mark — shared by Finnish speed skater Clas Thunberg — Koss would have to return for the 1998 Games in Japan.
Only 25 now, he wouldn't be too old.
But, like Heiden, he wants to become a doctor and may find four more years of skating too stressful.
Karl-Adolf Scherer of the Germany sportsnews agency SID, covering his ninth Winter Olympics, said he
ranked Eric Heiden above Koss because the American won at all five distances.
"Heiden was not a world-record breaker, but he was a great competitor," Scherer said.
He has two more chances during the next week to break the Heiden-Thunberg record for most Winter Games golds won by a man.
He rated Dahlie as the greatest cross-country skier ever. The Norwegian, only 26, has won five gold and two silver medals in eight Olympic events.
The two-year-gap phenomenon occurs as the Winter Games are shifted for a staggered schedule, with winter or summer competition every two years.
The short gap is most noticeable in speed skating and cross-country,
where repeat championships are commonplace. But it also will come into play when Alberto Tomba competes on the Alpine slopes later this week.
Andy Mill, a member of the U.S. Alpine team in 1976 and 1980 and now a commentator for CBS, said it was unfair to compare today's skiers with legends like Franz Klammer, the Austrian remembered for his daredevil gold-metal downhill run in 1976.
Tomba is already in the record books as the only Alpine skier to win golds in two Games. Now, thanks to the short interlude, he could stretch the streak to three with a slalom or giant slalom victory.
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And he praised Toma as much for his charisma as his medals.
Greenspan said today's higher performance level was linked to bigger Olympic payoffs.
"Tommy Moe is an automatic millionaire now," Greenspan said. "The Mahre brothers (Alpine medalists in 1984) wouldn't have made 20 percent of that."
Even cross-country can be lucrative. Dahle's victories will double his current annual earnings of $200,000, the Norwegian daily Verdens Gang said yesterday.
Lillehammer stars on the verge of passing their prime should be thankful for the decision to alternate Winter and Summer Games, Mill said.
"The athletes in the twilight of their careers have one more shot," he said.
The tally
Country Gold Silver Bronze
Norway 8 5 2
Russia 7 5 3
Italy 3 3 7
Germany 4 2 5
United States 4 3 0
Canada 2 2 2
Source: The Associated Press
David Cause / KANGAN
Speed skater Dan Jansen, veteran of four Games and a world-record holder, had never won any Olympic medal until his gold in the 1,000-meter Saturday.
"Dan Jansen can really count his blessings with this two-year gap," MIH said.
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