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...watched her snow-clouded rush down the mountainside were all, in a sense, mountaineers. In their world, from the Alps to the hills of Scandinavia, skiing is about the only sport worth mentioning; it is almost a way of life. And last week, with the winter Olympics in Oslo only a month away, it was getting close to the climax of the skier's year. The baggage carrier at St. Anton, the bartender at Klosters, the woodcutter at Sestriere, the gendarme at Chamonix, the hotelkeeper at Oslo were all reading the ski news: the results of the Swiss National...
...Oslo next month, the U.S. men stand far less chance of winning than the women. To most European male skiers, the sport is less a sport than a career that success can further into a profession; most U.S. skiers are college men with other careers in mind. Among the U.S. men, the best bet is Salt Lake City's Jack Reddish, on Navy leave, who won a fourth in the 1950 F.I.S. (Fédération Internationale de Ski) world championships...
Team Manager Gretchen Fraser, who won the U.S.'s first Olympic skiing gold medal in 1948, was exuberant: "This is the first time in history that American skiers have made such a showing [one-two] in international competition. We'll have a team to reckon with at Oslo...
...placing third in the U.S. Olympic Ice Skating Team finals, sophomore Dudley Richards lost his chance to compete in the 1952 Olympic games to be held in Oslo, Norway, next month. Richards finished behind James Grogan of Colorado Springs, Colo., and Hayes Alan Jenkins of Northwestern. The American Olympic skating team includes two skaters in the men's singles division. Dick Button, 1948 Olympic Figure Skating Champion, is automatically on the team...
...Winter Olympics will take place in Oslo, Norway, from February...