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...wife learned the sport in Norway during his sabbatical. "It's testimony to my extraordinary ignorance of sking that I didn't even know there were two kinds. Now I am frightened by downhill skiing. When we were in Oslo I went up to the top of the Holmenkollen ski jump, the Olympic ski jump ther, and I could not imagine why people would launch themselves off the top of that thing voluntarily. I decided I would stick to cross-country...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Highlights of the Sebring Grand Prix of Endurance from Florida and the Holmenkollen International Ski Jumping Championships from Oslo...
American ski jumpers seldom finish better than 20th in big international meets, but last week a young 18-year-old from Duluth, Minn, placed tenth against the world's best at the Holmenkollen in Oslo, Norway. He would have done still better had he not faltered on one landing. As it was, Eugene Robert Kotlarek actually outjumped the winner, and established himself in a sport traditionally dominated by Europeans...
...longer jumps. Fortnight ago in the North American championships at Squaw Valley, Calif., he came within 3.3 points of beating Finland's Kalevi Karkinen. one of the world's best. "We were all amazed," said Norway's top expert, Sigmund Ruud, after watching Kotlarek at the Holmenkollen. "The U.S. has never had a more promising jumper...
Andy Again With the winter Olympics winding up at Oslo's famed Holmenkollen ski-jumping hill this week, some 150,000 Norwegians, shouting Heia! after each soaring leap, seemed to think that this was the best of all winter Olympic games. Native-born Arnfinn Bergmann won the big jump; Norwegian Speed Skater Hjalmar Andersen became a national hero by his grand-slam performance in winning the 5,000-, 1,500-, and 10,000-meter races on consecutive days; and Norway, according to unofficial point scores, won the games, 125½ to the second-place...