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The sixteenth episode of the novel the Olympic Winter sees a large Italian with three titles in alpine skiing but also cross-country skiing, where the Blues won with 8 of the 14 total medals (4 gold d'') of our expedition.
Saturday 1 February 2014 24 minutes reading time
In mid-October 1986 in Lausanne takes a 91st Session of the IOC complicated because you have to choose among a record number of candidates, seven, the host city for the 1992 Winter Olympic Games sixteenths. In the first round of the voting capital of Bulgaria, Sofia, 25 collects preferences, French Albertville 19 Falun Sweden and Norway's Lillehammer 10 per head, U.S. Anchorage and the Italian Cortina d'Ampezzo 7 each, eliminated Germany's Berchtesgaden with 6 votes. Second round: Albertville Sofia surpasses one vote, 26 to 25, but the absolute majority is still very far away, 11 to Falun head and Lillehammer, 5 and 6 Cortina Anchorage, eliminated. Third round: Albertville 29, Sofia 28, 11 Falun, Lillehammer 9 Cortina 7 and eliminated. Fourth round: Albertville 42, Sofia 24, Falun and Lillehammer 11 and here we need a supplementary vote to see who will continue, make it to Falun 41 to 40. At the fifth round Albertville finally reaches an absolute majority with 51 votes against 25 in Sofia and 9 of Falun.
The Olympics come back so white in France after 24 years in the city of the department of Savoie, Rhone-Alpes region, and many credit goes to Jean-Claude Killy, Chairman of the organizing committee and the very one who had been the king of the Games of 1968 Grenoble. Now the decentralization of various races than the core city of the event has become a habit and this year is no exception: the town during the competition, including Albertville, are as many as eight, plus two other disciplines such as demonstration curling and cross-country speed, which never enters the official Olympic program in part because of their death in this edition of the Swiss Nicolas Bochatay, going to crash in training against a snowmobile. The Berlin Wall fell and Germany was reunited, while Croatia and Slovenia compete detached from what remains of Yugoslavia, also the Soviet Union no longer exists, but its former republics still compete together as a Commonwealth of Independent States, Unified Team or if you prefer, only the Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania come back to compete on their own for the first time since the end of World War II.
Said the demonstration sports: freestyle still is for the specialties of aerials (jumps) and "ballet", but also enters the official program with moguls, moguls, two of the eleven new events of these Olympics, which are won from the French Edgar Grospiron between men and woman from the U.S. Weinbrecht among women. Arrives at the Games biathlon women: the sprint distance of 7.5 km if the won the Russian Anfisa Reztsova, which in 1988 Calgary had been gold and silver in the 20 km women's relay in the bottom, the 15 km individual on the wins Germany's Antje Misersky, silver on the shortest distance, while the landlord French triumph in the relay 4x7, 5 km away. Finally enters through the front door the short track speed skating, short track that is, the 1000-meter men are won by South Korean director Kim Ki-hoon, who in 1989 had been four months in the hospital due to a severed artery from a shoe during a race, the 500 meters women are the prerogative of the U.S. Cathy Turner, both relays go to South Korea to Canada the male and the female. Two new races also on the bottom that raise to 57 the total number of official events: the chase free technique combined with a race in classic technique.
And at this point we must begin to talk about Italy because the Italians take home as many as 14 medals, nearly triple that of the five were won four years ago in Calgary. And the lion's share has been at the bottom with no fewer than eight precious metals when in the history of the Games between narrow skis we had won only two. In the first two races, a 15 km classic female who takes the place of 20 km and a 30 km classic men's, won respectively by the Russian Lyubov Egorova and Norwegian Vegard Ulvang in front of two of his countrymen, the first of which is a bjo , rn Dæhlie, Stefania Belmondo Marco Albarello fourth and fifth place, Stefy is back at the foot of the podium, fourth in the 5km classic won by Finnish Marjut Lukkarinen but the 10 km classic men things begin to change: Albarello Silver is behind Ulvang then 15 km pursuit on skating the Aosta Valley, stronger in alternating drops to fourth place but is Giorgio Vanzetta to move up from seventh place up to the bronze, also Dæhlie comeback in the fourth place and wins the gold in front of Ulvang. Even Belmondo comeback in pursuit of the 10 km skating reserved for women and it is gorgeous silver behind and in front of Elena Egorova Valbe who came to the games superfavorita, will collect four bronzes individual.
In relay events, where the first two fractions are alternating and the other two in skating, our budget is extraordinary with a bronze in the women behind the Unified Team of the former Soviet Union and Norway with Bice Vanzetta, Manuela Di Centa, Gabriella Paruzzi and Belmondo, and a silver in men with Joseph Pulié, Albarello, Vanzetta and Silvio Fauner who surrender only the big Norway. Remain longer distances, both skating: the 30 km women see the wonderful gold Stefy Belmondo before Egorova and Valbe, almost as wonderful the men's 50 km where the back of the unmatchable Dæhlie (5 Olympic titles of 5 for Norway in the men's skiing!) are placed the 41 year-old Maurilio De Zolt, as silver in Calgary, and Vanzetta, bronze. A budget unbelievable but equally amazing is that of alpine skiing.
It begins with the crazy combo caught in the wild by Josef Polig, never again on the fifth place in the World Cup, and Gianfranco Martin, never in the top ten in career: the two big favorites are the austrolussemburghese Marc Girardelli (in the meantime had nationals of the Grand Duchy and was unable to attend in Calgary although without results) and the Swiss Paul Accola but the first comes down, and the second deletes itself in the first run of the slalom. The Austrian Hubert Strolz seems to repeat the success of four years ago but a few doors from the end comes out literally giving away the gold and silver Polig Martin. On 18 February 1992 the same as the men's relay team of fund wins silver, gold is the day of our Alpine Skiing: Deborah Compagnoni triumphs gold in super-G trimming 1 "41 French Carole Merle and nearly 2 seconds at a German Katja Seizinger, shortly after imitates Alberto Tomba who becomes the first ever to confirm the Olympic title in a specialty Alpine skiing repeating the triumph of Calgary in the giant, the beaten and the rising star are Girardelli Norwegian Kjetil Andre Aamodt, who won the super-G in front of Girardelli. It 'also the winner of the slalom Norwegian, Finn Christian Jagge, which in the first round trim 1 "to 58 Grave, the sixth, the Bolognese is unleashed in the second and comeback to the silver missing for 28 cents a" double double "consecutive to the Games in racing techniques that have made history.
The men's downhill on the brand new and terrible Face de Bellevarde in Val d'Isere goes to the Austrian Patrick Ortlieb, scorrevolone favored by the starting number 1, the female, on the equally difficult track of Méribel, goes to the Canadian sorpresissima Kerrin Lee-Gartner, part of the club of Olympic champions who have never won a World Cup race of his career. The female giant wins the Swedish Pernilla Wiberg but that is the race of the drama by Deborah Compagnoni, less than 24 hours after the triumph in the super-G, it destroys the ligaments in his left knee after 15 seconds of the first round after losing the the previous three seasons before for a similar injury to his right knee and then to peritonitis, which threatened to be fatal, the champion of Valtellina is perhaps best remembered today for his cry of pain on live TV during the giant that for all scored victories in his career, which also have been many. Finally, slalom and combined if awarded the Austrian Petra Kronberger, who after dominating among women for three seasons skis hang on a nail in early winter after the age of 23, in the tight race between the posts the New Zealand Annelise Coberger, silver, makes winning for the first time at the Winter Games medal southern hemisphere and Blanca Fernández-Ochoa, bronze, the first medal at the Winter Olympics Women's Spain 20 years after the gold of his brother Paco . The fourteenth medal comes from the blue toboggan with Hansjörg Raffl and Norbert Huber won bronze in doubles by the Germans Stefan Krausse and Jan Behrendt, who had been silver in Calgary, the men's single wins the German Georg Hackl who beat Austrian Markus Prock after that he too was silver in Calgary, is the Austrian one-two in the women's race where Doris Neuner precedes her older sister Angelika.
In ski jumping shines bright star Toni Nieminen of Finland, after the bronze by small trampoline won by Austrian Ernst Vettori, in the team competition becomes the youngest male Winter Olympic champion in history at 16 years and 259 days and then triumphed by large trampoline, but after this winter will disappear into anonymity, in both individual events is another teen silver, Austrian Martin Höllwarth, a year "old" by Nieminen. In the Nordic combined historic double of the hosts with Fabrice Guy Sylvain Guillaume silver and gold, the French are not repeated in the team competition and quarters where they are from Japan, where he won thanks to its strong athletes in jumping. In the men's biathlon German Mark Kirchner stands out in while in the individual sprint silver behind Russia's Evgeny Redkin in a race literally thrown away by Andreas Zingerle that last polygon when it is clearly lacking in all four targets on five collapsing to seventeenth place, Kirchner also pocketed gold in the relay for the first time does not go to the now former Soviet Union that instead triumphs for the eighth and final time in ten holdings ice hockey in the final by beating Canada for 3 - 1 and won a tournament in which it was not as favored as the other times. In the two-man bobsleigh success of the Swiss Gustav Weder, Austrian Ingo Appelt the race four where German Wolfgang Hoppe, silver front Weder, winning yet another Olympic medal, the fifth.
Finally skating. In the artistic male Ukrainian Viktor Petrenko brings another gold to the former USSR who triumphs as usual in the pairs competition with Natalya Mishkutenok and Artur Dmitryev, and dance with Marina Klimova and Sergey Ponomarenko. The U.S. in the artistic female Kristi Yamaguchi, Japanese origins of clear, gold is in front of the first woman who has ever been able to successfully perform a triple axel in competition, Midori Ito, third and fourth two other Americans, Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding, that will soon be talked much about himself. In long track speed half of the titles are Germany's Uwe-Jens Mey is confirmed on the throne of the Olympic men's 500, Olaf Zinke won the 1000 for a single penny on South Korean Kim Yoon-man, Gunda Niemann, by Miss Kleeman, triumphs over longer distances for women, 3000 and 5000, and Jacqueline Börner winning 1500 a year and a half after nearly dying hit by a car while on a bike ride to Berlin with some teammates. In the shorter distances the U.S. women's Bonnie Blair is double winning both 500, which repeats the title of Calgary, is over 1000. In 1500 the Norwegian Johann Olav Koss male triumphs a week after being discharged from the hospital for an infection in his pancreas, his countryman Geir Karlstad, who had disappointed in Calgary where he was a big favorite, takes his revenge by winning the 5000 and 10000 in Bart Veldkamp beating Koss puts an end to fasting male Olympic titles in Holland that had lasted for 16 years.
To conclude this long series, the other important results of the blues: Polig complete his extraordinary Olympics and finished fifth in the super-G and ninth in the giant, Kristian Ghedina is sixth in the combined goals of our most eventful, Zingerle is seventh in the sprint biathlon, the same placement for the bronze Calgary Johann Passler in the individual while the men's relay was fourth and eighth in the individual female Nathalie Santer. Günther Huber and Stefano Ticci fifths are in two-man bobsleigh, Fauner seventh men's pursuit of the fund, Paruzzi ninth in the 15 Classic and Di Centa sixth in the 30 to skating, dance Stefania Calegari and Pasquale Camerlengo are excellent fifths, Silvia Marciandi is seventh in the freestyle moguls, two fourth places in each event of the sled with Norbert Huber and Gerda Weissensteiner, Kurt Brugger and Wilfried Huber fifth in doubles and Oswald Haselrieder seventh in the individual. Ivan Lunardi gets a sensational seventh place in the ski jumping large, with regard to the long track speed skating on Roberto Sighel is ninth on the 10000 and Elena Belci tenth of 5000.
Summary
16th edition of the Olympic Winter Games
Host city and date of the event: Albertville (France), 8-23 February 1992
Athletes participating: 1801 (1313 men, 488 women)
Participating countries: 64
Italian participants: 107 (79 men, 28 women)
Standard Bearer Italian Alberto Tomba (Alpine skiing)
Securities allotted: 57 in 12 sports
Official opening: President François Mitterrand
Olympic athletes' oath: Surya Bonaly (Figure Skating)
Olympic Oath of Judges: Pierre Bomat
Last torchbearer: François-Syrille Grange
The medal
Germany: 10 gold 10 silver 6 bronze
Unified Team: 9 gold 8 silver 6 bronze
Norway: 9 gold 6 silver 5 bronze medals
Austria: 6 gold 7 silver 8 bronze
United States: 5 gold 4 silver 2 bronze
Italy: 4 gold 6 silver 4 bronze
France: 3 gold 5 silver 1 bronze
Finland: 3 gold 1 silver 3 bronze
Canada: 2 gold 3 silver 2 bronze
South Korea: 2 gold 1 silver 1 bronze
Japan: 1 gold 2 silver 4 bronze
Netherlands: 1 gold 1 silver 2 bronze
Sweden: 1 gold 3 bronze
Switzerland: 1 gold 2 bronze
China: 3 silvers
Luxembourg: 2 silver
New Zealand: 1 silver
Czechoslovakia: 3 bronze
North Korea: 1 bronze
Spain: 1 bronze
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