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Show TheSalt Lake Tribune by professionalism. Both teams made thetrip to Switzerland. I the AHA team played in t ¢ pull the entire U.S. delegation if itz, got the IOC to ban both U.S. $s organizers defied the IOC , Which it did. The IOCresponded by declaring the hockey competition unofficial, but later reversed itself, concluding that only the U.S. team's participation was unofficial So, after sullying thestart of the Olympics and making the AAU playersfeel like “fall guys”in his grand battle, Brundage essentially lost. The U.S. teamfinished fourth — Canadawonthe gold ongoaldifferential over the Czechs after both teams went 7. 0-1 — andthe Swiss gavethe Yank playerstheircertificates of participation anyway. Otherthan thatblack eye, the Americansacquitted themSelves well. In fact, on Feb. 5, 1948, they enjoyed oneoftheirfin- est days everin the Winter Olympics. Onthat day, the innova: tive Dick Button, then18 years old, won the men’s figure skating competition with an electrifying free-skating performance, and GretchenFraser wontheslalom, de i medalin the combined. Those were America’s first Olympicvictories everin figure skating andskiing. It shouldbe notedthat, on the opening dayof this symbolic festival of peacein neutral Swi ind, Mohandas Gandhi, the princeofpeacein India, was nated in NewDelhi. There norecognition of that event in the wire dispatches from St. Moritz. 1952 Oslo ‘The Norwegians,whohadsovigorously opposedtheideaof a Winter Olympicsearlier in the century, finally got to host one.It wasthefirst Winter Gamesin acapital city instead of a smallresort town, and inthe eyes of one Norwegianchronicler, the urban setting and large crowds gave the Winter Olympics the kind of boost that Stockholm hadgiven the then-struggling Summer Olympics in 1912. These Games markedthe return to Olympic competition of German athletes, a sensitive subject for the Norwegians, whose country hadbeenoccupiedbythe Nazis in World WarII. Forinstance, speedskater Finn Hodt made Norway's team, but the Norwegian Olympic Committeerejected Hjalmer Andersen Norway Speedskating himas Nazicollaborator. Despite these still-rawfeelings, the Norwegiansinvited the Germansto send a team and cheeredits three gold medals. The homefolk couldafford to be mag- Won three gold medals in three daysin front of homefolksin Bislett Stadium. Won 1,500 by a whisker, but took nanimous, since they had plenty of their ownheroes to applaud. Hjalmar Andersen wonthree speedskating gold medals in three days for Norway, including the 10,000 meters by a Secretariatlike 5,000 by 11 seconds 25 minutes. AndStein Eriksen, who would later becomea favorite son of and 10,000 by 25 seconds. ROAD TO THEGAMES Thursday, November2 2001 ard was shut off Gar In June of that year, it was off to Paris to convince the I He took a 3,000-pound model Squaw Valley with b pitched the concept of building the perfect Olympic venu: ratch, appealed for a Pacific-based on the secondballot, 32-30, overhe Tn 1955, . unincorporatec memberfromCalifornia. resort hadonechairlift, two After winningsilver in 1956, New Yorker persevered to wingold. Albright in Cortina in tied later that year of car n 60. After becoming thefirst rope tows, andone50-roomlodge alifornialegislators, whio surely hinkhe had a chance of winning. Bythe time the Games arrived, the state was into it for several times more than $1 million. The overall price tag for these Olympics, including highway and airport improvements, was estimated at ic oath at the Opening Ceren w York University student fulfilled her Id easily with a near-perfect perfor $20 million Gamesorganizers built an ice arena a speedskating oyal and an Olympic Vil deceased mother. Won lage, among otherthings. But they first U.S. gold in these balked at shelling out the money fora home-turf Olympics. bobsled run, with so few countries declaringentries, and, infact, didn’t build one,leaving the 1960 Winter Gamesasthe only ones in which bobsled was notcontested. However, while the bobsledders were an gold medal in ice hockey was theor’ " and perhaps more remarkable than the or 1980 in that the Americans had to slay two giants, the Canadiar andthe Soviets, in back-to-back games. They beat Canada2-1 thanks to gi Ja McCartan was the hero, stopping 150of161 shotsin ment for a .932savepercentage. ter Games had plenty of otherfirsts: thefirst time that all athletes wer housed underone roof;thefirst time Al pine skiefs used metal skis (Frenchman Jean Vuarnet won the downhilf on them); the first time electronic timing and scoring devices wereused; and the first time the Games weretelevised live ih the United States. sidelined, two sports were added to the program: biathlon and women's speedskating. The SquawValley Games wereintimate ones, with all events within walking distance except cross-country skiing, which was 12 miles away. And these Games had the good fortune to avoid the weatherproblems that had plagued earlier Winter Olympics. Oh, and one more: It may havebeenthefirst timethat Brund age, by then the president of the IOC, wasforced to say something nice about the Winter Olympics. 1964 at least after the op&ning Innsbruck day, whichrang in with a blizzard. Eventhen, the weather broke long enough to accommodate the Walt Disney-directed Opening Ceremony. The sportswriter Red Smith wrote: thoughon signal from Disney him: re aR UscR Cartan’s 39 saves, and then upset the xi goal by Bill Christian. They racle with asix-goal third periodthat chased keeping promise to her ‘Theweatherwas generally gorgeous at the instantth ere charmed Games, with p! ich were produced by American i the U.S. hockey tean y had no mayor (an IOC filled therole), and the Cushing had gotten a $1 million pledge Carol Heiss United States Figure skating he sun of uplifting storie athletes: figur The Austrians were none too pleased that the Californians had wrested the 1960 Games away from them. Then, after they had won the 1964 hosting rights in a first-ballot IOC votein May SE 3 DAY SALE Friday 10:00 to 6:30 * Saturday 10:00 to 6:00 * Sunday 12:00 to 4:00 Utah, wonthe giant slalom for Norway’s first gold medal in Alpineskiing,the dis- cipline it had once scorned. Forthefirst time, womenwereable to compete in Nordic skiing, whichehadbeen considered “unladylike” in Olympic quar- ters. The Finns swept the women’s 10K,andit was noted in American dispatchesthatall three Finnish womencovered the distance faster than anyof the’U.S. men hadin their4-by-10 relay. ‘The Americans, however, hada fair numberofsuccesses: An- drea Mead Lawrence’s gold medals in the slalom andgiant slalom, Dick Button’s repeatvictory in figure skating, and a secondplacefinish by the hockey team, whoserough play was not well received by the Norwegian crowds. Canada, whichwasheld to a 3-3 tie by the Americans in thefi- nal gameof the round-robin tournament, wonthe gold medal,its sixth in seven Olympics. As every Canadian will be reminded from nowuntil February, this wasthelast hockey gold for Canada. In thefirst seven Olympic tournaments, the Canadians went 7-1-3; since Oslo, they have wonjustthree silvers and two bronzes. The Gamesended with some150,000 people watchingthe ski jump, but beneath the surfaceof these joyful Olympics lurked a cautionary development. Wrote historian Allen Guttmann, “Al- most unnoticed at the time was an ominousreport: Ampoules and syringes were discovered in the OlympicVillage, strong evi- dencethat someathletes were resorting to drugs.” 1956 Cortina d’Ampezzo TheItalians, whowill host the 2006 Winter Olympicsin Turin, had their only other experience with them inthislittle village of 7,000 people in the Dolomite Mountains,in an area that had been controlled by Austria before World WarI. Cortina, which had lostto Osloin its bid for the ’52 Winter Games, came back and easily beat three North Americancities (Montreal, Lake Placid and Colorado Springs/Aspen)in the IOC vote in 1949. Cortina had a world-class bobsled run Toni Sailer Austria Alpine skiing but little else in the wayoffacilities, and so it spent about$8 million on infrastructure, The centerpiece was the new First skier to complete the Alpinetriple in the ice stadium, where, in the Opening Cere- Olympics: downhill, slalom andgiant slalom. Wonall three events by comfortable margins. mony, somebodyforgotto tell skating torchbearer Guido Caroli about a microphonewire that had been extendedin his path. He tripped overit, but managed to get up andlightthe flameanyway. Afterwards, the chagrined speedskatersaid, “RememberthatI didn’t let SAVE 20-60 OFF retail prices on everything throughoutthe entire store. Save on stock or special orders from prestigious furniture manufacturerslike... the torch go out.” ‘The flame in Cortina lighted the wayfor a bold new course in the Winter Olympics: Soviet domination. These Games marked the debutofathletes from the Soviet Union in the Winter Olympics (they had appeared in the Summer Gamesin 1952), and they made an immediateimpact, leading the festival with seven gold medals. They were strong in speedskating, Nordic skiing andice hockey;inthelatter, they defeated Canada 2-0 in theirfinal game,ending the Canadians’ long Olympicreign. The Russiansretained their unsmiling countenance during the Games; they lodged in an isolated hotel abouteight miles out- side of town. Of course,this was the midstof the Cold War.In fact, on the second day of these Olympics, President Eisenhower rejected a Sovietofferofa 20-year friendship treaty, which was essentially viewedasa public-relationsploy. Fortheir part, the Americans dominated their own little area of these Olympics:individualfigure skating. The United States swept the men’ssingles, with Hayes Jenkins winning the gold medal, andit took first and secondin the women’s, with Tenley Albright becoming the first American woman to win an Olympic figure skatingtitle. She did it despite badly slashing her right ankle withherleft skate during a training accident nine daysbefore, an injury that caused her muchpainon her jumplandings. The outstanding athleteof the Games, though, was 20-year-old Austrian Toni Sailer, who becamethefirst Alpine skierto pull off the hat trick of winning the downhill, slalom andgiantsla- Century Showcase Stickley * Chapman * Nichols & Stone » Bradington Young * Leathercraft » Taylor King * Jeffco * Precedent * Stanley * Lexington * Hickory Chair ¢ Sligh Desk * Swaim ALL Leather Furniture Take an Additional 10% OFF ALLBedding & Area Rugs ALL Recliners & Sectionals ALL Entertainment Units & Wall Units ALL Accessories & Accent Pieces when you use your MasterCard or VISA for yourtotal purchase! oe= This offer will be honored during this sale only and és not opplicable to prior MasterCord or VISA purchases ond is not applicable to any Century items. ALLSofas, Sleepers & Chairs ‘All Century snow on promotion ot 40% off suggested reta ALL Occassional Tables & Desks Ask about our special 90 days - NO payments/NOinterest program Jom. Inasport in which racesareoften decided by tenths of a secondorless, Sailer thrashedthefieldin all three events; his smallest victory margin was three anda half secondsin the downhill. 1960 Squaw Valley Thefirst Winter Olympics in the Western United States were the inspirationof a transplanted Easterner named Alex Cushing, whosaw SquawValley,Calif., for the first time in the late 1940s and decided he was going to movethereand build a skiresort. Then,one day in December1954, he saw a small story in the San Francisco Chronicle reporting that a couple of Americancities were bidding for the 1960 Olympic Games,andhe thought, “Why not myresort?” Within six months, he had them. Cushing wenttoa U.S. Olympic Committee meeting in January 1955 and became the American candidate to bid forthe FURNITURE GATE, -EcR 15 E.'S. 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