Word: partenkirchen
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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...
...seemed like the winter Olympics all over again. For the world championships, figure skaters had moved to the big ice stadium built by Adolf Hitler at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in the Bavarian Alps. Colorado's Hayes Jenkins repeated his Cortina victory; when the women finished their school figures. Defending Champion Tenley Albright seemed to have a slight lead over Long Island's Carol Heiss, just as she had had in the Olympics. The "Skating Mothers" were still on hand, still complaining about accommodations, still intent on a family triumph...
Miss Heiss took a slight edge over Tenley in the compulsory figures division and added a decisive margin in the free skating to win the competition held at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany...
Tenley Albright '57 barely held the lead over her Olympic rival, Carol Heiss of Ozone Park, N.Y., after the completion of four school figures in the world's woman's figure skating championships at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany...
Before departing for the satellite orbit, Tenley will participate in the German competition at Garmisch-Partenkirchen. After her trip to Czechoslovakia and Poland, she plans to give exhibitions in Vienna, Helsinki, Berlin, Paris, and London before starting home...