Word: finished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reversed the seedings that determined starting positions, moved both Vermont's Billy Kidd, 20, and Colorado's Buddy Werner, 27, into the coveted first rank. The luck of the draw gave Kidd first crack at the 10,236-ft. course-and when he flashed past the finish line in 2 min. 21.82 sec., almost 1½ sec. better than the course record, American joy knew no bounds. But Germany's Ludwig Leitner clocked 2 min. 19.67 sec., and France's Leo Lacroix cut almost a second off that. Then, high above the tree line a grinning...
...skis chattered, and the wind whistled through the ear holes in his crash helmet. Finally Zimmermann was in the homestretch, zipping through the Velodrome, a 400-yd. series of banked interconnecting turns, and on down the last, steep traverse, caroming off a final bump-and flying across the finish line in midair. Time...
...That should have done it," boomed an Austrian voice over the finish-line loudspeakers...
...else came close. Nearly crashing into a tree, Colorado's Werner was lucky to finish 17th, and the fastest of all the U.S. skiers, as it turned out, was California's Ni Orsi, 19, who had barely qualified for the team, wound up 14th. Winner Zimmermann did his best to console the losers. "After all," he said, "it's only proper that an Austrian should win on an Austrian mountain...
...yard dash, it was a different story. A tired Awori slowed at the finish of the final heat and finished fifth in a field of six. No other Crimson sprinter made it past the preliminary heats...