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...electrifying run at the Birds of Prey downhill in Beaver Creek, Colorado, a couple of years ago that both impressed and terrified the U.S. coaching staff. Small for a speed racer (5 ft. 6 in.; 1.65m) he's made steady progress, finishing 11th at the Super G in Kitzbuehel in January. He picked a great time to step into the limelight. Svindal won the gold by covering the course in 1:30.34, edging Miller's 1:30.62 by 0.28 seconds. It's the second medal for the Norwegian, who like Miller is a former world champion. He shaded Miller...
...answer is, of course, lots of tourists: Austria drew 6,000,000 last year, almost outnumbering the 7,000,000 inhabitants and bringing in $523 million in foreign exchange. The visitors come for the Vienna Staatsoper and the Salzburg Festival, and to ski at resorts like Obergurg, Kitzbuehel, and St. Anton, but above all for the easy informality of Austrian life and the mellow sentimentality of the neighborhood Heurigen (wine festivals). After all, says one Viennese student, "We like eating, drinking, dancing and loving. If that's not the good life, it'll do until something better comes...
...Fresh from winning the coveted Lauberhorn trophy at Wengen, Guy Perillat, 21, a trooper in the Alpine corps of the French army, rocketed down the mountainside at Kitzbuehel, Austria to win the Hahnenkamm, a second major prize in international skiing, with a victory in the downhill, second place in the slalom...
...KITZBUEHEL, Austria, Jan. 16--The three-day International Hahnenkamm Ski Races, starting here tomorrow, are a star-studded dress rehearsal for the 1956 Alpine Ski World Championships at nearby Bad Gastein two weeks later...
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