Sport: At Lake Placid

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— Points in the Olympic Game are unofficially computed by awarding 10 for first place, 5 for second, 4 for third, 3 for fourth, 1 for fifth, i for sixth. Since few countries enter teams in every competition, there is never an official winner of the Olympic games.

†(Through a typographical error TIME fortnight ago reported the minimum margin for record-beating as 5 m.p.h. instead of .5 m.p.h.

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