Word: bobsledding
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The U.S. has yet to win its first Olympic gold medal in men's skiing, and its girls have not been golden since Andrea Mead Lawrence swept the slopes in 1952. The last bobsled victory was in 1948; the one hockey triumph was in 1960. Only in figure skating...
ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The World Bobsled Championship from Grenoble, France, and the New York Athletic Club Track and Field Meet from Madison Square Garden.
There is obviously no such thing as a safe bobsled run, but there are varying degrees of danger. Nobody has ever been killed on Austria's Igls run, and it was a shock around the famed Ronco course at Cortina, Italy, when Germany's Anton Pensberger crashed to...
A Britisher invented the bobsled. In 1890, Wilson Smith nailed two toboggans together and invited three friends along for a hair-raising ride down a mountain at St. Moritz. Capital idea, decided the Italians, the Swiss and the Americans, who added steel runners, steering wheels, crash helmets, specially constructed bobsled...
Now Britannia rules again. In the 1964 Olympics, Britain's Antony J. D. Nash, 28, a frustrated sports-car racer (his dad said no to a Maserati, yes to a bobsled), shocked everybody by beating Monti for the two-man gold medal. Monti thereupon decided to retire, and last...