Sport: With Homemade Snow and Dreams of the Past
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While the officials and the lawyers wrangled, the athletes swarmed into the Adirondack village that had the gumption to become the host for the Games. Far up on Whiteface Mountain, growling Sno-Cats groomed the courses that will test the finest skiers in the world, while speed skaters glided across a shining oval of ice in front of Lake Placid High School. It could be—it should be—a glorious Winter Olympics.
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