Word: holmenkollen
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...past two years, the best U.S. jumpers have accented form over distance. So do Barber and Devlin, who have their postwar sights trained on Holmenkollen (just outside Oslo, Norway), where judges see ski jumping first as an art, then as a distance-devouring flight...
...boycott was immediately effective. The world-famed ski meet on Holmenkollen, attracting 450 crack jumpers, was abandoned. When quislings tried to organize their own Holmenkollen meet, only 20 nonentities signed up. When a quisling was made president of the Oslo Gymnastic Society, all 7,000 members resigned. Sixty-four wrestlers signed up for matches with Denmark. Day of the elimination contests, not one appeared...