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The article suggests ways for amateur photographers to make the most out of documenting the sports events during the 1976 Winter Olympic Games in Innsbruck, Austria. It suggests bringing a single-lens reflex camera using the Kodachrome 64 film when the sun is out and the high-speed Ektachrome daylight film which works indoors and in overcast weather. It suggests winterizing both the camera and its lenses and using a hand warmer when handling films sine cold weather can make them brittle.

The article discusses the effect of amateurism in the selection of the U.S. Olympic hockey team for the 1964 Innsbruck Winter Games in Austria, with focus on its team captain, Bill Reichart. The 28-year-old, Canadian-born hockey star was not able to avoid the lure of Olympic prestige and eventually tried out for the U.S. hockey team for the 1964 Innsbruck Winter games despite the hectic training schedule. It is noted that the U.S. hockey team holds a second-second-first record in the last three Winter Olympics.

The article features the bobsled-luge competition which will take a special place in the 1976 Winter Olympiad in Innsbruck, Austria on February 4-14, 1976. It describes the luge as a small sled that was the basic tool of transportation during the Neolithic age. It has emerged into a sleek vehicle of speed which will be used by racers to stream 1,220 meters down the Innsbruck mountainside. It describes how Olympic officials have secured the run to avoid an attack by terrorists who killed and hostaged several people in Germany and in Vienna, Austria.