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- <text id=94TT0210>
- <title>
- Feb. 21, 1994: To Our Readers
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1994
- Feb. 21, 1994 The Star-Crossed Olympics
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- To Our Readers, Page 4
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> When Time's Winter Olympics reporting crew arrived in Norway,
- news-desk editor Susanna Schrobsdorff recalls, "the Lillehammer
- organizing committee told us, `There is no bad weather, just
- bad clothing.'" Schrobsdorff still thinks there may be more
- to it than that. Norwegians, she says, "are quite capable of
- chatting outside in -4 degrees F temperatures for hours, wearing
- their elegant gray-wool and elk-skin coats unbuttoned while
- we freeze in high-tech winter getups."
- </p>
- <p> Schrobsdorff may not have conquered the weather, but she is
- the nerve center for nearly everything else for our 11-person
- team in Lillehammer. She doesn't ski or skate, and she majored
- in English at Barnard before joining TIME's New York City news
- desk a decade ago. But she has covered Olympics both chilly
- (Calgary in 1988, Albertville in 1992) and steamy (Seoul in
- 1988, Barcelona in 1992) and developed a dual role as reporter
- and logistics organizer. Says deputy chief of correspondents
- Paul Witteman: ``Susanna has been our decathlete, mastering
- everything from telecommunications in Spain to computers in
- France to transportation in Seoul. She has reported from Odessa,
- Ukraine, about figure skater Oksana Baiul and from Copenhagen
- about the moves and moods of Torvill and Dean. I first saw her
- in Calgary being hugged by stuffed bears, which were that year's
- Olympics mascots. Now we all feel the same way about her."
- </p>
- <p> Witteman and Schrobsdorff are joined by contributor John Skow,
- who covered the 1988 Seoul Games for TIME. Paris-based correspondent
- Margot Hornblower and Claire Senard are both reporting their
- third Olympics. Deputy picture editor MaryAnne Golon, assistant
- picture editor Mary Worrell- Bousquette, picture operations
- manager Kevin McVea and photographer Jose Azel are veterans
- too.
- </p>
- <p> Schrobsdorff's way of relaxing after the Barcelona Olympics
- was to get married. She is based in Brussels. Her husband, a
- Swede with roots in the north, lives in Stockholm. The wedding
- was in Lapland. She wore a crown of gold with spikes festooned
- with pearls, and looked, she says, "like an escapee from EuroDisney."
- Despite the ancient rivalry between Norway and Sweden, she has
- been greeted warmly--and efficiently. "The Norwegians are
- so organized that we finished most of the work last September.
- We're still waiting for the Barcelonans to send the rest of
- our phone bill."
- </p>
- <p> Elizabeth Valk Long
- </p>
- <p> President
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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