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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that bobbing is necessarily for sissies. At last week's Swiss International Grand Prix at Crans-Montana, Austria's Willi Brenter, 24, outbobbed 113 competitors in the three-mile downhill run with a brisk average speed of 46 m.p.h. Brenter's brother Erich holds the world's speed record of 102 m.p.h., which is only 6 m.p.h. slower than Luigi de Marco's speed record on skis. "It is a calumny to say that only older people are interested in ski bobs," says Erich Brenter. "Ski bobs remove some of the danger of skiing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Ski Bob Bobbing Along | 3/17/1967 | See Source »

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