Word: strolz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Next day came the men, or to put things accurately, the man. There seemed to be only one skier on the hill. Austrian Hubert Strolz, the combined gold medalist, skied superbly, and Zurbriggen only a little less so. They finished second and third. After the commanding first run by Alberto Tomba, the 21- year-old Italian now universally known as La Bomba, it never seemed possible that he would lose. He did not. Tomba is a big, curly-haired, laughing fellow, winner of seven World Cup races already this season, who seems too tall and bulky to be the world...
...Hubert Strolz, a good Austrian slalomist who has never been a star, took the gold in the combined with a respectable fifth in downhill and a so-so seventh in slalom. As golds go, it was a lowly medal, but the Austrians, humbled lately by the mighty Swiss teams, were grateful...
...fifth-stringer who replaced fabled Franz Klammer in 1980, then made it worse by winning the downhill gold, finished an unexpected fourth last week and was finally embraced. Two days later, when Zurbriggen found a gate between his skis in the combined downhill-slalom, it was an Austrian, Hubert Strolz, atop the podium once more...
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