Word: garmisch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finals, Lehner met 240-lb. Blasius Glatz of Garmisch. Both men had heavily bandaged middle fingers, but neither was feeling much pain after downing eight Mass (two-quart steins) of beer during the long afternoon. For 25 seconds they grunted on even terms. Then Lehner, his face contorted like a gargoyle's, inexorably forced Glatz's fist over the line, rose to declare: "I'm blessedly glad that I've won today." With that the big brass band oompahed into the Fingerhackln Hymn...
...Garmisch-Partenkirchen had been touched up with snow to slow the sleds down to almost sane speeds. But World Champion Bobsledder Eugenio Monti, 30, was in no mood for safety. Only the fact that he had drawn a late starting number for the two-man trials helped him hold on to his hair-trigger temper. Earlier sleds swept the run clean, and Eugenio and his brakeman Renzo Alvera slicked down the one-mile groove in the record-breaking time...
...snow was replaced, and two German sleds made slow, comfortable runs to finish in first and second place for the four-man title. Unchastened Eugenio Monti sneered at the four-run time total of 4:49.33 and announced: "All I wanted was a fast run." Then, as a Garmisch gamin pranced behind him in an elaborate pantomime of shoveling, he added: "This is the last time I will race here...
Decimal Close. Carol, though, was no defeatist. She skated all-out in the free figures in an effort to overtake Tenley, and thrilled the crowd with a four-minute repertory of spins, splits, axels and loops (the same one that won the world title at Garmisch). She had never done better. But Tenley Albright also was in top form; the ankle she injured before the Olympics was healed. Her spectacular mazurka, witches' jump followed by a drag, and an Axel Paulsen jump, were woven into a pattern of almost unbelievable perfection. The final score was decimal close...
...winner of the match today will be the undisputed ladies champion. Tenley took the Olympics Feb. 2, in Cortina, Italy, but Miss Heiss came back 16 days later to win the world championship in Garmisch, Germany...