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Olympic 3x3 Team July Olympic 3x3 Team Golden. National Team Men. Games of the XIth Olympiad -- Related Videos. National Team Women. Watch Video. Gretchen Fraser, "whose downhill running was matchless" Seattle Times , February 2, , won the women's combined title, after finishing third in the slalom. The first 50 men and the first 20 women would be eligible to compete in the Olympic tryouts at Sun Valley.
Karl Molitor from Switzerland took the national combined championship, and many of the Washington skiers qualified to compete at Sun Valley. The Olympic tryouts, in downhill and slalom were held at Sun Valley on March 8 and 9, After the slalom race and the combined titles were awarded, four Northwest men were in the running for selection to the U. Amick, the veteran Washington Ski Club star, placed highest of the four, winding up sixth overall in the combined.
Fourteen-year old Andrea Mead of Rutland, Vermont, was "by far the outstanding entrant in the trials" Seattle Times , March 10, , winning first in the slalom and second in the downhill, and finishing second in the combined after Gretchen Fraser.
Alpine ski team for the Olympics was announced in Sun Valley on March 18, , and westerners got 11 of the 19 downhill and slalom berths. Two Washington skiers made the team: Gretchen Fraser and Dave Faires, one of five alternates on the men's team. A separate combined team was named, that would participate in more than two events. The women's downhill and slalom team was led by Fraser and Mead. The team stayed in Sun Valley for two weeks of intense training.
In the March tryouts, Seattle's Don Amick ran brilliantly in the downhill and slalom events, but his age -- he was in his late 30s -- was the reason he was not initially picked as an alternate. The winter's jumping events began in early February with a tournament at Leavenworth. Art Devlin, the national champion from Lake Placid, N. Perrault finished first. Six jumpers were selected to the U.
Olympic team after the event, the first five finishers -- Perrault, Sverre Fredheim, Gordon Wren, Ralph Bietila, and Walter Bietila -- plus Art Devlin, who had injured his knee at the Leavenworth tournament but who earned his berth "with flossy jumping" Seattle Times , March 24, in other events. After the competition, the jumpers left for Sun Valley for two weeks of training.
The big skiing story of was the Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland, the first held since , and the first to feature a full array of Alpine events, consisting of three men's and three women's events, although a few Alpine events were held in the Olympics. Otto Lang, who covered the Olympics as a special correspondent for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer , later described the U. Foremost among these was Gretchen Fraser, nee Kunigk, who had learned to ski at my school at Mount Rainier.
Now a resident of Sun Valley, along with her husband Don, also a renowned racer, Gretchen was touted by the American press as a dark horse and potential threat to the elite European women skiers in downhill and slalom, as was the up-and-coming Andrea Mead, the youngest member of the Olympic squad. Gretchen Fraser was the "unexpected heroine" Seattle Times , February 4, of the games, winning a gold medal in the slalom and a silver in the Alpine Combined, which she narrowly lost to Trude Beiser of Austria.
Gold medals were also won by year-old Dick Button in figure skating and the men's four-man bobsled team. Norway's Birger Ruud, who had competed in the Northwest in the late s, won the silver medal in jumping, to go with his gold medals in the and games.
Ruud was the coach of the Norwegian team, but decided to compete after arriving in St. Jumper Gorden Wren kept up with Ruud's length of jumps but could not match his "impeccable style in the air" Lang, and finished fifth. Fifteen-year-old Andrea Mead was three seconds ahead of the field at mid-course in the downhill, but took a bad fall and did not finish. She came back to win gold medals in slalom and giant slalom events in the Olympics at age Arne Ulland, "a visiting Norwegian flyer, who makes ski jumping look so easy, topped one of the best fields of American skiing" to win the National Championship with a foot jump, according to The Seattle Times of March 9, Preparing for the Olympics Preparations began in to select the U.
Inside, the den is dominated by a framed photo of the 14 members of the U. Olympic basketball team. Johnson is the man in the middle, with the ball at his feet.
From a closet Johnson pulls the hat and sweater vest he wore during the opening ceremonies at Berlin's Olympic Stadium. He gingerly removes his gold medal from a box. He cradles the champion's laurel wreath, now dried with age, that was placed on his head by Dr. James Naismith, the inventor of basketball. The memories come at him like a fast break.
As the Games in Atlanta approach, Johnson's thoughts often turn to Germany six decades ago, when basketball became part of the Olympics and he became a gold medalist. Of the 14 members of the U. Several of these '36 Olympians earned subsequent sporting acclaim. Johnson, for example, raised prizewinning Appaloosa horses. Balter was a sports broadcaster and newspaper columnist in Los Angeles. Lubin became known as the godfather of Lithuanian basketball after he led his ancestral country to the European championship in Basketball had been part of the Olympic program at the Games in St.
Louis, but there were only five teams, all from the U. Thanks in part to persuasion by Phog Allen, the legendary Kansas coach, in basketball was officially recognized as an Olympic sport. The U. Unfortunately the AAU teams had to pay their way to the Garden. The Universal Pictures squad encountered similar problems when, according to Lubin, the studio stopped supporting the team to protest U. And so the nation's prospective Olympians had to barnstorm their way East. The Universals and the Oilers met again in the finals.
The Oilers had won in Denver, but this time Hollywood's hoopsters prevailed by a point,
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