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...publicity and attention that surrounds a three-time national champion. Her picture is on the cover of Time Magazine. ABC has followed her every step on the way for three years. Many feel she has the best shot for an American gold medal in the upcoming Olympic Games in Innsbruck, Austria...
Next Wednesday afternoon in Bergisel Stadium in Innsbruck, Austria, 1,500 athletes from some 40 nations and 70,000 spectators will watch as Josef Feistmantl, a former luge-sled gold medalist, lights the Olympic flame opening the twelfth Winter Games. That flame will burn for twelve days of competition in the dangerous, exciting, magically graceful world of winter sports. More than half a billion people around the world will follow the action on TV, including millions in the U.S. who can tune in 39½ hours of coverage on ABC, most of it in prime time...
...summer games in Munich four years ago; a lovely, old city of narrow streets and gilded buildings, crammed with cars, microwave towers and the trappings of progress. There will be much talk about the glory of amateur athletics, although the concept is now scarcely more alive than Innsbruck's medieval statuary...
...last night is any indicator, the Russian hockey team won't have to worry much about the Americans at the Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, this February...
...always losing to Norwegians, Finns or Russians in international competition. Indeed, no American has ever finished better than 15th in Olympic races. All that may soon change. In rising numbers and with new seriousness, U.S. cross-country racers are preparing an assault on the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria...