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The tenth installment of the novel the Olympic Winter sees Jean-Claude Killy match the three golds Toni Sailer in Cortina 1956, and who sees the'' Italian suddenly projected between the great white of the Games with fourth place in the medal count. Guess the 98 Sochi 2014 Olympic podiums!
Thursday 16 January 2014 18 minutes reading time
There are six cities bidding to host the tenth edition of the Olympic Winter Games and the choice was to take place'' in October 1963 in Baden-Baden in the 60th session of the IOC but to streamline the program of work of the vote is postponed little more than three months, at the 61st session, held in Innsbruck just before the opening ceremony of'' none Olympics white. On January 28, 1964, the day of judgment: in the first ballot the French Grenoble takes 15 votes, the Canadian Calgary 12, the Finnish Lahti 11, Japan's Sapporo 6, the Norwegian Oslo 4 and the U.S. Lake Placid 3 quests'' last tried again for the fourth time in seven editions after which hosted the Games in 1932 but again without success. The last three are eliminated, a second vote sees prevail Calgary by 19 votes with 18, followed by Grenoble and from Lahti, which is eliminated with 14. Once again, the absolute majority'' there is and you have to resort to the third vote, a real final ballot, in which Grenoble prevail by a narrow margin of 27 votes to 24 for Calgary.
'' And so the city Alps Rhône-Alps to win the Winter Games returning to France at 44 years since the first Olympics in Chamonix and white for the second consecutive year remain on'' Alps, also for the second time row of the North American city'' s Alberta and the home of Nordic skiing suomi must surrender. There are many firsts in this Olympiad: are introduced doping controls on femininity and even those (among the victims of the latter control the Austrian alpine ski champion Erika Schinegger, who shortly after the Games will change sex), viewers can be seen in their own homes pictures of the races for the first time in color (but not in Italy, which stands for always arrive well behind other countries in terms of technology and not only), and finally presents the first mascot ever among Winter and Summer Games, a stick man on skis called Schuss, although the official approval of the International Olympic Committee for the mascot will only come with the Summer Olympics in Monaco 1972.
The Olympic movement then finally takes note of a division already enshrined at the political level but also in sports by all but by the IOC since 1949: the western and eastern Germany compete for the first time with two separate teams and not only in one unified. The program is almost identical to that of Innsbruck with the addition of the men's relay biathlon. To conclude, there is no no demonstration sport and this will happen in the next three Winter Olympics,'' but in the last day of the Games will perform in a gala the first ten pairs are classified at the World Cup for a new discipline of figure skating The dance, which in the official report of Grenoble is defined curiously "skating rhythmic" and that will have to wait another eight years before being admitted to the Olympic calendar.
Let's start from what was the first really big Winter Olympics in Italy. In bobsled is consecrated absolute ruler even at the Olympic level Eugenio Monti, the "red wheel" on the bulletin board has nine world titles in seven two two into four, but five circles has collected two silvers and two bronzes. At 40 he played the last chance to catch the only gold that is missing and it does now in race two, when with his brakeman Luciano De Paolis comes first ex-aequo with West Germans Horst Floth and Pepi Bader but having Monti clocked the fastest time of the race in the last heat the gold is up to the couple while Italian and German silver remains. The Cortina is repeated in race four with De Paolis, Roberto and Mario Armano Zandonella with 9 cents on the crew of the Austrian Erwin Thaler but the match is abandoned after only two heats in the gut of the Alpe d'Huez because of the high temperatures and therefore Monti gets to the second neck gold, as well as De Paolis.
That was the last joy of a life which later gave the greatest driver of all time only blue bob disappointments and misfortunes to induce him to commit suicide when he was 75 years old, on 1 December 2003. The single sees the closure of women's luge ahead after three of the four races in the heat: first, second and fourth are the East German Ortrun Enderlein, defending champion Anna-Maria Müller and Angela Knösel in among them, third, there is the 20 year-old South Tyrolean Erica Lechner, but the Germans were disqualified because their shoes were heated and this is against the rules. Given that the gut of Villard des Lans race can not continue because of the runway ruin Lechner's surprise became the first Italian woman to win an Olympic gold medal at the Winter Games.
But who comes even more strongly in the story is Franco Nones, 27 year-old cross-country skier in Val di Fiemme, which in the 30 km, the first race that awards medals at these Games, ahead of the competition northern European countries and the Soviets became the first from the central and southern Europe to win an Olympic title in cross-country skiing. In Italy you do not know anyone yet Nones has won several international competitions in previous years these Games and experts consider it to be one of the possible outsiders, some few thought he could even win the gold with almost a minute on the Norwegian Odd Martinsen and over a minute the great Finnish Eero Mäntyranta, which last time control was only 4 seconds of delay from the blue but then in the end is unexpectedly collapsed. In the same race Julius Deflorian, bronze over the same distance at the World Cup Zakopane 1962, fifth place and recriminations blue because the staff did as the last group of penalizing say about her. Italy takes the total to four gold medals, one more than he had won in all previous editions of the Games White, finishing in fourth place in the medal of this Olympics.
The King of Grenoble, however, is the darling of the house Jean-Claude Killy who repeats the feat Toni Sailer in Cortina in 1956 by winning all three races in alpine skiing. On the descent Killy mockery of 9 cents compatriot Guy Périllat already bronze at Squaw Valley in 1960 and this time silver in the giant slalom, held for the first time in two races at the Olympics, slaughters the competition trimming more than 2 seconds to all . Finally, the slalom, winning more controversial. Killy is first after the first run but in the second, after he has already fallen and that the Norwegian Håkon Mjøen preceded him 55 cents then being disqualified for jumping to the door, it's up to Karl Schranz, who after the first fraction is separated by 32 cents. But the Austrian stops around the twentieth door, he said disturbed by a "black man" who has crossed the track in front is allowed to repeat the test with a near-perfect race to beat Killy 51 cents. Two hours after the end of the race the twist: Schranz was disqualified because of the appearance of the first '"black man" according to the jury had already missed a gate. Killy does so tris entering the legend and the end of the season amid controversy retired only 25 years old and on the bulletin board with the first two World Cups in the history of alpine skiing.
Turning to the women, the descent to win the Austrian Olga Pall, the giant Canada's Nancy Greene, who won the first two World Cup women's slalom and the French Marielle Goitschel, gold four years earlier in goal wide. The other three races are the prerogative of the male end of Norway, the two veterans Harald Grønningen and Ole Ellefsæter win respectively 15 and 50 km centering Monti as the last chance to catch the Olympic gold in their individual case , and both contribute to the domain norge in the relay. The 5 and 10 km women have only one mistress, Toini Gustafsson, Finnish birth (maiden ago Karvonen) but Swedish adoption because his family was evacuated as many others because of the war with the USSR in ' Karelian Isthmus. Norway also won the women's relay but remains dry and in the Nordic combined, which goes to the West German Franz Keller, both the jump: the title of the small trampoline conquers the Czech Jiri Raska, the first for his country at the Games whites, that of the Soviet Vladimir Belousov large trampoline.
The speed skating events have eight different winners: among men, the West German Erhard Keller won the 500, the Dutchman Kees Verkerk 1500, the Norwegian Fred Anton Maier 5000 and the Swedish Johnny Hoglin 10000, among women, the Soviet Union Lyudmila Titova 500, the Dutch Carry Geijssen 1000, the Finnish Kaija Mustonen 1500 and the other Dutch Ans Schut 3000. In the men's single luge is the Austrian Manfred Schmid to regulate competition while in the east the Germans excel double Klaus-Michael Bonsack and Thomas Köhler, first gold in five circles "official" for the eastern part of Germany. Austria wins the men's artistic figure skating with Wolfgang Schwarz while in the female there is a revival in the United States thanks to Peggy Fleming, a student of architect Carlo Fassi, in pairs confirm the title of the Innsbruck Soviet champion Lyudmila Belousova and Oleg Protopopov. The USSR also won the relay biathlon, and despite the defeat against Czechoslovakia in a challenge that anticipates a few weeks, the Prague Spring, the tournament of ice hockey, it is Norway who returns to lead the medal thanks & Outdoors , gold Magnar Solberg in the individual biathlon. Other results to be reported for Italy were a great fifth place in the Nordic combined for Ezio Damolin that no blue fail to improve until 2010, the sixth in descent from Ivo Mahlknecht and seventh in slalom Glorianda Onion and finally the sixth of men's relay of the fund with a Nones weakened by the huge effort made to win the 30 km.
Summary
10th edition of the Olympic Winter Games
Host city and date of the event: Grenoble (France), 6-18 February 1968
Athletes participating: 1159 (948 men, 211 women)
Participating countries: 37
Italian participants: 47 (39 men, 8 women)
Italian flag-bearer: Clotilde Fasolis (Alpine skiing)
Securities allotted: 35 in 10 sports
Official opening: President Charles de Gaulle
Olympic athletes' oath: Léo Lacroix (Alpine skiing)
Last torchbearer: Alain calmat
The medal
Norway: 6 gold 6 silver 2 bronze
Soviet Union: 5 gold 5 silver 3 bronze
France: 4 gold 3 silver 2 bronze
Italy: 4 gold
Austria: 3 gold 4 silver 4 bronze
Netherlands: 3 gold 3 silver 3 bronze
Sweden: 3 gold 2 silver 3 bronze
West Germany: 2 gold 2 silver 3 bronze
United States: 1 gold 5 silver 1 bronze
Finland: 1 gold 2 silver and 2 bronze medals
East Germany: 1 gold 2 silver and 2 bronze medals
Czechoslovakia: 1 gold 2 silver 1 bronze
Canada: 1 gold 1 silver 1 bronze
Switzerland: 2 silver 4 bronze
Romania: 1 bronze
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