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Article: On the Bobsled Run and in the Village, `Big Al' Is Just Fine
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- The Washington Post
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- February 23, 1988
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He is the first member of the International Olympic Committee to
compete in the Winter Olympics, and surely the only athlete here
whose name fills most of a paragraph: His Serene Highness Prince
Albert Louis Alexandre Pierre of Monaco, Marquis des Baux.
And an all-around neat guy.
"We call him Al, or Big Al, in the village," said American Mike
Aljoe of his new bobsled buddy. The Prince of Monaco says of Aljoe,
the free-spirited former Oklahoma defensive end: "He sure says a
lot."
It figured that the bobsled competition would be the most
pleasantly international of the 15 events, but not that it would
actually turn into a melting pot. And a boiling pot for the United
States, also known as ...