Word: putney
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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BILL KOCH. Americans do not win crosscountry ski races. So when Bill Koch, a reclusive Vermonter from Putney (pop. 1,789), won the silver medal in the 30-km race at Innsbruck in 1976, the first U.S. medal ever in Nordic siding, nobody was there to notice. In fact, after the race was over, Koch had to go out again in his uniform and skis so that photographers could take his picture for the papers back home...