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The fifteenth episode of the Winter Olympic novel in which in addition to our Alberton are on the shields of the figure skater Katarina Witt, the speed Yvonne van Gennip, who won three individual golds, and Finnish ski jumper Matti Nykänen, who wrote a hat-trick in the leap yet never repeated.
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The host city of the fifteenth Winter Olympic Games is chosen nell'84a IOC session on 30 September 1981 in Baden-Baden, West Germany. In the first round the Canadian Calgary collects 35 votes against 25 of the Swedish Falun and 18 in Cortina d'Ampezzo. The Pearl of the Dolomites is deleted and then you go to the ballot and a prevalence Calgary for 48 to 31. The Games White back in North America after eight years but for the first time calling in Canada, and the precision in the most populous and rich state of Alberta. These games, during which are staged demonstration sport for now even as curling, short track speed skating and freestyle are full of big players but also curious characters: we can not forget, as far as the bob, the debut of Jamaica, with tipping on the crew of the famous race four ever clicked on Youtube, and as far as the ski jump, the modest performance dell'occhialuto British Eddie "Eagle" Edwards, both he and the Jamaicans, however, become famous in their own Because of these folk their performance.
Participating nations rising to 57 while the events are 46, seven more than those of Sarajevo in alpine skiing back after forty years in the Olympic program combined, which are both going to Austria, with the eternal placed Hubert Strolz winner among men and among women Anita Wachter; debut the super-G and that of women is won by another Austrian, Sigrid Wolf, while in the male Franck Piccard returns to France a gold five-looking winter after twenty years of fasting , then there is evidence to teams jumping and Nordic combined, won respectively by Finland and Germany, and finally comes the longest distance in the women's speed skating in which the Dutch Yvonne van Gennip, who two months before had was admitted to the hospital for an infection in his right foot, complete with a sensational trio of gold beating once again favoritissime East German exactly as it did in the 1500 and the 3000.
The only race of the women's speed skating that East Germany is unable to win the 1000 meters thanks to Christa Rothenburger, a few months later at the Seoul Olympics to win silver in the speed of cycling becoming the first and only athlete including men of history to have won medals at the Summer Games and the winter in the same year. The same Rothenburger, defending champion of the 500 meters, falls below his world record on the distance shorter but is beaten by just 2 cents from the American Bonnie Blair. In the male the two shorter distances see the family drama of the American Dan Jansen, however, tell you that in another installment of the Winter Olympic history, the 500 meters are the East German Uwe-Jens Mey and 1000 the Soviet Nikolay Gulyaev, of democratic Germany also 1500 with André Hoffman while the Swede Tomas Gustafson confirmed the title on 5000 and it also adds to the 10000.
Two doublets of gold that can for the first time at the Winter Games in this issue: that of the East German Frank-Peter Rotsch and in the individual sprint in the biathlon (and the relay goes for the sixth consecutive time the Union Soviet Union) and Matti Nykänen in the two jumps of ski jumping, the jumper turbulent Finnish adds even a third gold by winning the aforementioned team competition with his companions completing a hat-trick that has not yet been matched by anyone. In figure skating, said the artistic in pairs (for the seventh time in a row) and dance are the prerogative of the USSR, respectively, with Ekaterina Gordeeva and Grinkov Sergey and Natalya Bestemyanova and Andrey Bukin, the race male and female go down in history.
That of men is known as the "Battle for Brian" between the U.S. Boitano and Orser Canadian, and a prevalence of narrow measure while the first home favorite had to settle for silver as Sarajevo: no Canadian, as at the Summer Games in Montreal 1976 will win an Olympic title. Among women, the scene is the "duel of Carmen" and the beautiful East German Katarina Witt, defending champion, and the colored American Debi Thomas skate the free program to the tune of Bizet's opera, but while Katarina runs a program elegant but without undue risk, and that the just to be the first since Sonja Henie to reconfirm female Olympic champion in the artistic, Debi commits numerous errors and even must leave the silver at the Canadian Elizabeth Manley but settling for bronze medalist became the first of color at the Winter Games.
Bob the ruler of Sarajevo, the East German Wolfgang Hoppe, was forced twice to silver: two in the race because of a bad (and contested by athletes to the conditions in which it is played) second run, and the success goes to the Soviet of Latvia JÄnis Kipurs; race in the four Swiss Ekkehard Fasser invents a fourth round superlative that allows him to bypass Hoppe and end his career in the most beautiful way. It 'also the title of Swiss Nordic combined individual, held for the first time by the method Gundersen, thanks to Hippolyt Kempf, as well as in alpine skiing are imposed by the federal government of the immense Pirmin Zurbriggen in the men's downhill, with a masterful test which is still in the eyes of all those who have seen it, and the equally immense Vreni Schneider, who makes twice in the giant slalom and women. The descent of women, held on the difficult track Nakiska, goes instead to the West German specialist in the super-G Marina Kiehl. Tris East Germany in luge: the single male Jens Müller rejects the onslaught of the western part of the countryman Georg Hackl, in the double Steffi Martin, now Mrs. Walter is confirmed on the top step of the podium, finally Jörg Hoffmann Jochen Pietzsch and impose themselves in the double.
The Soviet Union won five titles out of eight cross-country skiing, and it is thanks to these securities, in addition to the now customary in the ice hockey tournament, in which only loses the final match with Finland in games already made, who will return to establish itself in the medal count. In the narrow skis begins the distinction between races in classical technique, ie alternating, as they had always been held so far, and free technique, that is, with skating improved especially by the American Bill Koch. The 15 and 30 km, respectively, are both in alternating Mikhail Devyatyarov and Aleksey Prokurorov, the 10km classic Lithuanian Vida VencienÄ— and 20 km skating Tamara Tikhonova, the latter also won the relay with the three other factional USSR. The 5 km classic goes to the very young and very bright meteor Finnish Marjo Matikainen, while Sweden won the other two men's races, the relay race, held all the way to skating as the female, and the 50 km free technique in which Gunde Svan comes to four Olympic gold medals in total, two of which are individual, ahead of the reigning world champion, the 37 year-old "Cricket" Maurilio De Zolt, first medal in the blue background from the times of Franco Nones.
And it is with Italy that we want to conclude this chapter as the biggest media star of these Games with Katarina Witt is Alberto Tomba, 21 year old Castel de 'Britt, province of Bologna, who after leaving the third port of the super-G devotes the first big season of his career by dominating the giant and two days later, repeating the triumph slalom climbing up from third place in the first heat. It is worth mentioning that the Sanremo Festival, the highest national-party of our country, that Saturday evening of February 27, stopped to follow the victory of Alberto tight between the posts, such was the popularity of the sample came from the Emilian plain after the Seasonal seven wins in the World Cup in slalom and giant slalom. But the blue booty do not stop there since Johann Passler, Antholz South Tyrol, rewrites the history of our biathlon winning two bronze medals in the individual first and then relay with Werner Kiem Lake, and Andreas Gottlieb Taschler Zingerle, this is also the first medal ever for Italy in a Winter Olympic relay.
Other significant results for our Representative's fourth place in the giant slalom won by Ivano Camozzi Tomb, the seventh in super-G and Michaela Marzola Paoletti Gizzards the defending champion in slalom, sixth and ninth De Zolt and Marco Albarello in the 15 km classic, fifth seventh and eighth Giorgio Vanzetta, Gianfranco Polvara and 30 km in Albarello always alternated, the fifth in the men's relay, however, knows that half of disappointment, the sixth of Manuela Di Centa in the 20 km skate and female Finally, Roberto Sighel fantastic seventh in the 10,000 meters speed skating, sports where we have no tradition. For once the sled does not get us medals, the best result is the seventh Kurt Brugger and Wilfried Huber in doubles.
Summary
15th edition of the Olympic Winter Games
Host city and date of the Calgary (Canada), 13-28 February 1988
Athletes participating: 1427 (1112 men, 315 women)
Participating countries: 57
Italian participants: 58 (42 men, 16 women)
Italian flag-bearer: Paul Hildgartner (luge)
Securities allotted: 46 in 11 sports
Official opening: Governor General Jeanne Sauvé
Olympic athletes' oath: Pierre Harvey (cross country)
Olympic Oath of Judges: Suzi Morrow
Last torchbearer: Robyn Perry
The medal
Soviet Union: 11 gold 9 silver 9 bronzes
East Germany: 9 gold 10 silver 6 bronze
Switzerland: 5 gold 5 silver 5 bronze medals
Finland: 4 gold 1 silver 2 bronze
Sweden: 4 gold 2 bronze
Austria: 3 gold 5 silver 2 bronze
Netherlands: 3 gold 2 silver 2 bronze
West Germany: 2 gold 4 silver 2 bronze
United States: 2 gold 1 silver 3 bronze
Italy: 2 gold 1 silver 2 bronze
France: 1 gold 1 bronze
Norway: 3 silver 2 bronze
Canada: 2 silver 3 bronze
Yugoslavia: 2 silver 1 bronze
Czechoslovakia: 1 silver 2 bronze
Japan: 1 bronze
Liechtenstein: 1 bronze
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