Word: innsbruck
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...what ruled the roost at Innsbruck, Grenoble and Sapporo were those weird foreign sports, athletic events I could never comprehend. What do those middle two men do in the four-man bobsled? How does one ever learn to ski jump? I imagine one is either very good after the first jump or else very dead...
Meanwhile, in the wooded high country above Innsbruck, Vermont Farm Boy Bill Koch, 20, stunned the European cross-country establishment by finishing second in the 30-km. marathon...
...addition to covering events on the slopes and rinks, TIME Staff Writer Philip Taubman explored Innsbruck's Olympic Village, a cluster of high-rise apartment buildings, shops and dining facilities that serves as home for some 2,000 participants and coaches at the Winter Games. His report...
...SPENT MILLIONS of dollars for the rights to broadcast the Olympics, and millions more for equipment like a studio assembled in New York, broken down for shipment, and put back together in Innsbruck. Then they assigned American sportscasters who act as if they knew nothing about winter sports to cover the events with only the help of some former participants, whom they title "experts." Frank Gifford, ex-New-York-Giants pro football player and connoisseur of Super Bowls, commented on the Olympic downhill race: "Look at all those people flocking to the slopes. You know, this event is the Super...
...first statement ABC's anchorman makes is, in ominous tones, "The Russians are favored to win most of the medals here at Innsbruck." Later on, after Bill Koch of Vermont finishes an unexpected second in cross-country skiing, McKay calls it "one of the great days in American athletic history." Then Werner Wolf exults over Sheila Young's record-setting 1500 meter speed skating performance, "This is America's first gold medal." The only consolation is that ABC isn't as bad now as they were at the 1972 Summer Olympics, where they showed a chart every hour...