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Dartmouth's Wally Ashnault took the individual honors as he shot down "Hillman's Highway" in 43.6 seconds. Ski team Captain John Hauser followed with 46.6, and Dartmouth's Olympic skier Brooks Dodge finished third with...
...placed fifth for the U.S. in the Olympic downhill race, whistled down, his skis chattering like Tommy guns on the bumpy ice. Brooks Dodge, also a Dartmouth man and Beck's Olympic teammate, loomed out of the fog at terrific speed, frantically clawing at his misted goggles. One skier blindly pounded on to the flat before he knew he had reached it, hit a bump, hurtled into the air and pinwheeled four times before he hit the ground...
...zipped across a bridge, cut in & out of a hairpin turn. The knowing crowd was yelling itself hoarse; no one had ever seen anything quite like it. Andy's time: 1:03.4, a full two seconds faster than any of the world's best women skiers had been able to do all day. The feat was comparable to a middle-distance runner breaking the world record for the mile by more than seven seconds. Despite her first-heat spill, Andy had become the first U.S. skier ever to win two Olympic gold medals. Her winning margin, over Germany...
...loafing, even as she made a final flick with her ski pole to break the electric-eye photo timer at the finish. But the knowing crowd, recognizing speed when they saw it, cheered her effortless descent, cheered again as she fell into the waiting arms of her husband, U.S. Skier Dave Lawrence. When Andy's time was announced (2:06.8), even Andy was surprised. "Gee, that's good. I didn't think I was going that fast...
...away the fastest run of the day. Austria's glamorous Dagmar Rom placed second, with 2:09. Andy, U.S. women's team captain at 19, had won the first gold medal of the 1952 Olympics, the second ever won by a U.S. skier. Not until 5 that afternoon was she able to get any food down-a sandwich. But now she could remember that skiing was fun. Said she: "Well, one down...