Word: tofana
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...night into suicidal speed runs. U.S. Army Private Leslie Streeter broke a shoulder bone. His teammate, Ragnar Ulland, soared to a crash landing in a practice ski jump and was badly bruised. Italy's downhill ski champion, Maria-Grazia Marchelli, fresh from a plaster cast, whipped down a Tofana slope at 50 m.p.h.; she wound up back on the sidelines with a torn knee ligament. In a sense, the accidents were inevitable. The traditional contests, with which the games began in ancient Greece, strain muscle and mind, but rarely endanger life. Only since the Olympics moved to the mountains...
...Crack Russian Skier Valentina Nabatenko broke her leg while schussing down Cortina's Tofana mountain...
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