Word: cortinas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cortina, after the first two days of the demanding brackets, loops and paragraph threes of the compulsory figures, she was 59 points ahead of her closest rival. Just the same, she hung around the rink until 11 p.m., watching other skaters work. Then she went out and put on the most dazzling free-skating performance of her career...
...lilting strains of Johann Strauss's Graduation Ball wafted through Cortina, Italy, as a sturdy blonde girl glided around the open-air rink. The music leaped, and the girl leaped too-a twisting "double axel" that sent her hurtling through the air until she glided back on the ice. The music played on, and each time it soared, she soared-through intricate "flying camels," "double toe-loops" and "flying sit-spins." The performance ended. The Netherlands' Sjoukje Dijkstra, 21, smiled sweetly, acknowledging the bravos. She smiled again, less demurely, when the judges announced her score...
Sunday Sports Spectacular (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). World's Figure Skating Championships, from the Olympic Ice Stadium in Cortina, Italy...
...Canada's acrobatic Donald McPherson. 18: the men's figure skating title at the world championships in Cortina, Italy. Trailing in fourth place, 38 points behind after the compulsory "school figures." McPherson grimly took to the ice in 5° cold, put on a dazzling display of free skating that drew scores as high as 5.9 (perfect: 6.0) from the judges...
...injured as the teams from eleven nations tried their skill -and luck-on the Igls run. Only the Italians seemed immune to the hex of the Hexenkessel. Led by Eugenio Monti, 35, six times world champion in two-man bobs, and Sergio Zardini, 31, a wiry hotel manager from Cortina, Italy's daredevils placed first and second in both the two-man and four-man events. Monti's best time for the two-man bob: 1 min. 6.4 sec., for 51 m.p.h. average...