Word: innsbruck
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They saw their first bobsled race, on television, during the Innsbruck Games in 1976-and they were hooked. Bobsledding on Taiwan? On a subtropical island? "People stare at us a lot," says one Taiwan delegate. Undeterred, Wu Chung-chou, 27, and his brother Wu Dien-cheng, 25, keep in shape running and lifting weights and come to race in key European competitions. Their major complaint: lack of up-to-date equipment. They drive an old Italian-made two-man sled. "The equipment of all the participants should be the same," said the younger Wu. "But for a country without...
Eight years ago, when he was an anonymous young man of 20, who after racing could chip the ice out of his eyebrows without being bothered, Koch happened to win an Olympic silver medal at Innsbruck. No American had ever won a Nordic medal before, and none has done it since, though only Koch has been blamed for that. When during the 30-km in 1980 he quit and walked off the course, he said he was conserving his energy for the 15-km and 50-km races ahead. But public reaction was harsh. This time, though 21st, he reached...
...shortage of events, and the network's share dropped to about 21%. Said Joel Segal, executive vice president for broadcasting at the Ted Bates advertising "agency: "We expect that ratings will get better, but indications are that they will not be as good as they were for the Innsbruck Games in 1976." Indeed, for the first three days, ratings were at least 25% lower than for the comparable days at Innsbruck...
...Harvard hopeful, Bonnie St. John '86, recently returned from competing in the Handicapped Olympics at Innsbruck. Austria, where she collected a silver and two bronze medals in slalom. St. John says she hopes to ski for Harvard next year, despite the disadvantages she may face skiing on one leg against skiers on two. "I'll have to ski a lot better than someone else to make the same time," she adds...
...term job. The makers of France's Rossignol skis employ teams of scouts who follow the racing circuits looking for potential stars. Austrian manufacturers provide free gear to nearly 600 promising youths, some under the age of ten. Comments Christl Haas, a gold-medal winner in the 1964 Innsbruck Games: "These toddlers all have at least three pairs of skis and a company representative to wipe their noses...