Word: klammer
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...just an inconvenient storm. Forty people were killed in avalanches in Austria, Italy and Switzerland. Throughout Alpine Europe, roads were closed, villages cut off, skiers stranded. Austrian Franz Klammer, American Bill Johnson and that whole body of men who like to race down mountains had to break two dates with Mount Bjelašnica, where the winds topped 120 m.p.h. and the safety nets blew away. Over at Jahorina, the women downhillers were also delayed...
...have found themselves a downhiller. Last week at Wengen, Switzerland, Bill Johnson scored the first World Cup victory ever by an American man in a downhill, despite screeching off course on one ski almost into the woods (talk about slam, dash and amazing recoveries). Austrian Franz Klammer was annoyed. If the Americans are going to start winning downhills, truly nothing is sacred any more...
...Austrian ski team was considerably grimmer than the Americans, and for a good but unusual reason: it had too much talent. In fact, so strong were the Austrians that Franz Klammer did not even make the team. In 1976, Klammer's run in Innsbruck had instantly become a classic of sport-a headlong, fanatical plunge of almost mystical recklessness and desire. But the following year, Klammer's younger brother Klaus, also a racer, fell so badly that he will probably be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life. After that, some critical edge of aggressiveness...
...Winter Olympics have always produced galvanizing moments in sport: Franz Klammer's kamikaze downhill run at Innsbruck in 1976, when he beat not only his competitors but a challenging mountain with his will to win; Peggy Fleming's fluid elegance in the 1968 figure-skating finals in Grenoble; Jean-Claude Killy's domination of the slopes in the same Games as he won all three alpine gold medals for la gloire de France. Before the events at Lake Placid draw to a close on Sunday, Feb. 24, they will have created moments of pure gold. Key events...
What is the name of the form used by 1976 gold medal downhill skier Franz Klammer...