Word: montis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Garmisch-Partenkirchen had been touched up with snow to slow the sleds down to almost sane speeds. But World Champion Bobsledder Eugenio Monti, 30, was in no mood for safety. Only the fact that he had drawn a late starting number for the two-man trials helped him hold on to his hair-trigger temper. Earlier sleds swept the run clean, and Eugenio and his brakeman Renzo Alvera slicked down the one-mile groove in the record-breaking time...
Finding an empty car near the run, a night watchman called the cops, and after a long, moonlit search, the investigators found Monti and his men shoveling snow off the sled track as busily as neighbors clearing a driveway. Nonplused at having nabbed a world champion, the cops collected the shovels and made a report to the Bob-Wart (track steward). Next morning, with the backing of the Italian Bobsled Association, the steward and his Championship Jury disqualified Shoveler Monti's sled...
...snow was replaced, and two German sleds made slow, comfortable runs to finish in first and second place for the four-man title. Unchastened Eugenio Monti sneered at the four-run time total of 4:49.33 and announced: "All I wanted was a fast run." Then, as a Garmisch gamin pranced behind him in an elaborate pantomime of shoveling, he added: "This is the last time I will race here...
...MONTI WALTERS Forest Hills...
...nowhere. ¶Bobsledding, almost a private sport for hefty, hare-brained daredevils, held no appeal for the Russians. Italian Jet Pilot Lamberto Dalla Costa, who knew every bump on the dangerous chute, put his long hours of practice to good use, swooshed home in front of his teammate Eugenio Monti. The best the U.S. could salvage was a slow fifth by Connecticut's Bud Washbond...