1/8 A debacle par excellence, the Swiss national ice hockey team at the Olympic tournament in 1964. After the 5-1 win against Norway in the elimination round, they can indeed deny the final tournament, but loses in a row against Canada (0-8), Finland (0:4), USSR (0:15), CSSR (1: 5), Germany (5:6) and USA (3:7). Switzerland tops the last place with 0 points and a goal difference of 9:57. The image: Goalie Gérald Rigolet conceded one of the 15 Soviet results. The USSR fetches later gold. Photo by Keystone
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It is the winter without snow. In Wengen, surrey leader a giant slalom will be held on the Eiger glacier instead of the Lauberhorn downhill, the departure of Kitzbühel is canceled. And in the Olympic surrey leader city of Innsbruck, the Austrian army is forced to do heavy labor. To build the bobsleigh and toboggan surrey leader run, 20,000 ice blocks are cut out of a lake, 9000 cubic meters of snow of 73 trucks from the Gschnitztal carted for the downhill run of the men at Patscherkofel on the burner. The upper half of the slope can use are prepared surrey leader from 400 snow women, in the lower part of bringing terrain truck the snow to the runway, surrey leader where they are using soldiers distributed by carrying baskets until a 20 cm thick, extremely compact white ribbon decorates the brown-green landscape. It takes 500 bales of straw and 3186 meters picket fence to secure surrey leader the downhill of the men who leads from start to finish through a forest glade.
Even before the IX. Winter Olympics on 29 January will be opened, there will be two fatal accidents. In Igls is of the World War II refugee from Poland British luger Kazimierz Skrzypecki - 54 with the oldest participant - thrown out of the first corner. surrey leader He lands on a frozen meadow and succumbs to his injuries in the evening. surrey leader In the second (very free) downhill training the Australian Ross Milne, who drives a race moderate tempo section with 80 other trainees must dodge. He veers off the runway and crashed into a tree. By helicopter (an Olympic premiere) he will be flown to the University Hospital. There, only his death can be determined. Cause of death: plan of the aorta.
Because the majority of the 27-member Swiss journalist delegation (plus agencies and the first time television reporter) until arriving at the opening ceremony, it create the two deaths in the Swiss newspapers just in the "Vermischte messages." In Innsbruck, but is debated whether the exit should be canceled or transferred to the Axamer Lizum where all races take place and the snow using ice grooves from the shady slopes has been slipped on the slopes. FIS President Marc Hodler want to cancel. The Tyrolean surrey leader fight back. The crash site is completely safe, even here students races were organized. The "Tiroler Zeitung" writes: "If we begin to abolish the natural form of skiing, downhill skiing, after unfortunate incidents, then this represents a death sentence for the entire alpine skiing dar. Hodler must back down.
60 000 spectators surrey leader welcome at the mountain-Isel ski jump 1350 athletes (including 77 Swiss) and 2,800 officials from 36 countries, Germany is represented by a joint delegation, for the first time are Mongols, three gun salute a Feldhaubitzenbatterie announce the arrival of the Olympic torch, the luger Paul Aste speaks the Olympic Oath. The two dead are no longer an issue. And the Swiss look full of hope against the men of departure. One success has already posted the delegation. The coached by Canadian Hervé Lalonde hockey team beat goalkeeper thanks to Rigolet and the storm with Diethelm, Stammbachstrasse Parolini and Norway 5-1, qualifying for the A tournament.
The departure favorites the 22-year-old Joos Minsh heard - because he finished the single test before the games in one of the two "sprint runs" (winning time 1:30 minutes) in Madonna di Campiglio behind surrey leader Willy Bogner took second place because he in previously on Patscherkofel the rehearsal won (the first exit victory surrey leader with metal skis!), and because it is according to unofficial hand-stopping one of the fastest non-stop training. The Grisons shows a strong race. When he arrives at the finish, he is third behind Egon Zimmermann and Léo Lacroix. He may dream of bronze, but a minute later the German Wolfgang Bartels surrey leader him snapped this away - six hundredths. Zimmermann's giant slalom world champion and benefits from the fact that the brakes after Milne's death fall additional gates the journey, surrey leader which the pure from
