Word: austria
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...downhill, pitched himself out of the starting gate and 15 seconds into his run, felt the safety binding on his left ski let go. Read parted with the ski and the potential gold he had spent years training for. The men's downhill winner was just as unpredictable: Austria's Leonhard Stock, the 21-year-old Tyrol farmer's son who was not even supposed to be a starter on the downhill team. The women's downhill, however, followed form. The favorite was Austria's Anne-marie Moser-Pröll, 26, who had captured...
Yesterday's first run of the men's giant slalom made for the biggest surprise of the day, as highly favored Ingemar Stenmark of Sweden stood in third place behind Lichenstein's Andreas Wenzel and Hans Enn of Austria. If Wenzel maintains his position and wins the gold, he will complete the first brother-sister alpine-medal winning act in Olympic history. His sister Hanni won the women's downhill Sunday...
...America's Jim Denny, provide an exhibition in soaring madness. In the women's downhill, from 1-3:30 p.m., America's Cindy Nelson, 23, will ski her last Olympic race matched against such formidable opponents as Liechtenstein's Hanni Wenzel (sister of Andreas) and Austria's Annemarie Moser...
...link students with these boards, which then help the students choose the program best suited to their interests and talents. Before students are sent to Nigeria or Borneo, they often participate in one of the many missionary training programs sponsered by the International Fellowship. Schloss Mittersill, a castle in Austria, is the Fellowship's training headquarters, where students from six continents take courses in "Christian living" and the Bible...
Whatever the fate of this summer's Moscow Games, the winter competition seems secure. All told, 37 countries will send athletes to the Games: the downhill demons and slalom masters from Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy and France; the hockey magicians from the Soviet Union, Canada, Czechoslovakia and Sweden; the spectacular speed skaters from East Germany and the U.S.S.R.; high-flying figure skaters from Britain and Russia; the ski jumpers from any country with athletes crazy and courageous enough to think they can hurtle off a 257-ft. tower and land without breaking every bone in their bodies. And in most...