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...Jonny Nilsson (a Swede) win the men's 10,000 meters. Americans spent $4 to file an official protest when Austrian skiers were allowed to study the men's giant slalom course in comfort, by walking it downhill. (Everybody else had to trudge uphill.) German fans screamed "Schiebung! Schiebung!" ("Fix! Fix!") when judges awarded France's Alain Calmat a spectacular score of 98 points for free-style figure skating, even though he fell down twice and burst into tears at the end of his performance. And the Austrian police seemed to have it in for everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Olympics: Avalanche at Innsbruck | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

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