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The article reports on the quadrennial Winter Olympic Games, a twelve-day ice competition with 1,500 athletes from 40 nations, which was held in Innsbruck, Austria. The Winter Olympics involves Europeans, Canadians, and Americans who contend for alpine skiing, while Scandinavians, East Germans, and Russians contend for cross-country marathons. It states that Austrians, Finns, and Swiss compete for the longest ski jump, and Italians, Swiss, and German challengers will be racing in bobsled and luge chutes. It mentions the elegant figure skating competition featuring nineteen-year-old Dorothy Hamill of the U.S., Diane de Leeuw of California and Christine Errath of East Germany. Furthermore, Hamill's previous skating performances, sports attitude, and sentiments are also discussed.

The article describes bobsledder Eugenio Monti, one of Italy's representatives to the 1964 Innsbruck Winter Olympic Games in Austria. He won two silver medals in the 1956 Winter Olympic Games held in Cortina, Italy, his hometown. Since then, Monti has never lost in world competition in the two-man sled event, where he has garnered six world titles, aside from two championships in the four-man event.

The article offers information on the 1976 Winter Games or the XII Olympic Winter Games to be held in Innsbruck, Austria. It states that the event will be viewed by television spectators in American Broadcasting Co. (ABC) since there will be 45 cameras to be positioned across the venue. It mentions that the event's live coverage will be commentated by sportscasters Frank Gifford, Curt Gowdy, Pierre Salinger, and Jim McKay. It says that athletes who will participate in the event will be accommodated well, wherein there will be 60 cooks who will serve their food such as Ham Steak Hawaii, and Macaroni Bordelais. It adds that the event will be divided into various winter game competitions including Alpine Skiing with three events, Nordic Skiing with four disciplines, and Bobsled competition.

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.

The article focuses on preparations for the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. It relates that almost everyone from Olympic clerks and construction workers to ticket takers is still residing in Innsbruck and ready to return into the role he or she played in 1964 Winter Olympics. It notes that the refurbished 90-meter Bergisel ski jump was revealed for an international competition in early in January 2010. According to the author, the renovation of the Bergisel is a notable addition to the Olympic architecture.