Word: bobsledded
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...great heave and grunted, "Auf geht's!" Pushing like mad, the bobbers galloped down the slick chute of the St. Moritz Bob-Bahn shouting, "Hoch, hoch, hoch!" Just before their sled hit the first curve they tumbled into their seats-off and running in the World Four-Man Bobsledding Championship...
However they started, every one of the 21 teams from seven nations dropped down the same 1,750-yd. slide last week. They whisked through the same series of neck-snapping, bowl-banked curves, navigated the hairpin turn called Sunny Corner, swooped through the Horseshoe, rolled into "Shamrock" and "Devil...
Switzerland's Fritz Feierabend is a prideful man who, at 45, can look back on a notable record in bobsledding: four world titles (the first in 1939) and five Olympic medals. Last week at the World Bobsled championships on northern Italy's evergreen-banked Cortina run, Feierabend's pride was doubly injured. In the two-man events, the Italians had placed one-two with new sleds of their own design (featuring knee-action front runners). It was beginning to look as if the famed Feierabend firm, which has produced Europe's best bobsleds for decades...
With something to shoot at, the other bobbers went after Feierabend with a vengeance in the second heat. The proud Swiss had an answer for them when his turn came: he broke the record again with a clocking of 1: 18.07, which left him a full three seconds ahead of...
Up the sled went, runners chattering at the whistling 60 m.p.h. clip. Gathered at the turn, 500-odd spectators - Mrs. Endrich among them-watched breathlessly for the precise change in course that would send the bobsled whipping down the sheer far side of the turn. The change was never made...