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I'm Mindy and I'm mark you can check out our audio podcast How I got my wife to read comics on itunes or on our website SF podcast network calm Well, we've been talking about winter queues the quadrennial international sporting event and here's more of that in 1956 Cortina de Ampezzo Italy was awarded the games after losing them in the war canceled 1944 games This was the first queues primarily funded through corporate sponsorship as the Italian government refused to cover much of the cost outside of Infrastructure, so fiat was the official car Olavetti supplied typewriters to the journalists again whether was an issue snow had to be trucked in by the Italian army the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe who had been running their own event the workers queues or Sparkety ads Decided to join the rest of the world at queues that year and quickly became a powerhouse taking over as the top award winner This was the first winter queues with television coverage It was done as an experiment and no TV rights were actually sold you just show up and shoot it Don't worry. Well, that will come next Eurovision broadcast the games across Western Europe while Soviet TV broadcast their own spin on the events During the opening ceremonies Italian speed skater brought a torch into the stadium and tripped on a TV cable But he was able to write himself and light the cauldron Also, the queues him was played for the first time Italy only one melson bobsleigh winding up in eighth place The USSR won the hockey tournament surprising since they had only started competing internationally two years earlier Tenly Albright one in women's figure skating despite a major injury two weeks earlier She fell in practice and a skate cut through layers of clothing and her ankle This was also the final time figure skating was held outdoors Ski jumping saw a major change in technique Competitors previously held their arms up while they were jumping, but Swiss skater Andres Dacher decided to hold his arms at his sides. He didn't win, but the whole sport changed to his position 821 athletes from 32 countries competed in 24 events. There were no demonstration sports 1960 brought the winter queues back to the US at Squaw Valley, California The result there the resort there had no facilities So they were all built at a cost of 80 million dollars This was the first case of a dedicated athletes village the first use of a computer IBM tabulated results and the first time Female speeds skating and biathlon replacing military patrol was held Walt Disney produced the opening and closing ceremonies The US threatened to deny visas to athletes from communist countries, but the IOC threatened to take the games away So they relented One thing Squaw Valley didn't build was a bobsled course since only nine countries were going to send teams So that event wasn't held For the first time TV rights were sold in this case to CBS for all of $50,000 which resulted in 15 hours of coverage In the men's slalom there was a question if a competitor had missed a gate So they asked CBS to supply tape for review. This would eventually become instant replay Disney's opening ceremonies included 5,000 entertainers the release of 2,000 pigeons a military gun salute and fireworks the opening salvo in the bigger and better Well, at least bigger opening ceremonies. We see today Isaki again saw controversy when the Canadians alleged that the Soviet Union's amateur players Actually were given fake jobs in the military so they could practice full-time and get a huge advantage Canada would continue to complain about this and would boycott the event down the line The US improbably won after which the USSR would win until the 1980 miracle on ice. We are getting there As mentioned by Athalon joined queues at Squaw Valley is cross-country skiing plus shooting Carol Heist won in women's figure skating. She would go on to co-star in Snow White and the Three Stooges The Soviet Union won the most medals 665 athletes from 30 countries competed in 27 events again. No demonstration sports We move back to Europe and Innsbruck Austria for the 1964 winter queues It was marked by previous tragedies Australian skier Ross Milne and British luge slider Kimriar's K Smiriski both died in training shortly before the games The entire US figure skating team including family members coaches and the officials were killed in a plane crash in 1961 on the way to the world championships, which were then canceled due to the tragedy The US team had to rebuild from scratch, which took many years As was becoming a pattern Innsbruck had a lack of snow Forcing 20,000 ice bricks and 40,000 cubic meters of snow to be transported by the Austrian army Italian bobsleigh pilot Eugenio Monte loaned the British team an axle allowing them to win the gold and Italy the bronze Monte was honored as the first recipient of the Pierre de Coubertin medal for sportsmanship As mentioned luge had its debut smaller sled running in your back the first again The Soviet Union won the most medals 1091 athletes from 36 countries competed in 34 events and ice stock returned as a demonstration sport 1968's winter queues stayed in Europe this time in Grenoble, France Color TV coverage happened for the first time with two million dollars for the rights Venues were spread out over the country and rumored to be done to provide better venues for TV Two stars came out of the event Jean-Claude Keeley won three golds in alpine skiing and went on to a lucrative commercial career Peggy Fleming won gold in figure skating The US is only gold and went on to be a TV commentator in the sport for decades as well as the star of the ice cupades The IOC began to order drug and gender testing of athletes for the first time after a number of controversies came to light The torch relay included a swimmer who held the torch above the water Austrian skier Carl Schantz stopped in the middle of a run claiming a man in black Crossed his path. He was allowed to restart and got a better time than Keeley, but an appeal disqualified him The East German luge team was disqualified for heating their runners The bobsleigh events had to be scheduled early in the day as the cooling system couldn't keep up with a daytime run ABC introduced Eugler's dream as the official squeeze anthem and it's still used today Norway won the most medals the first time since 1956 1158 athletes from 37 countries competed in 35 events Ice dancing known at the time as rhythmic skating was a demonstration sport Winter queues finally went to Asia in 1972 at Sapporo, Japan Speaking of Japan, they won a gold medal for the first time in ski jumping where they swept the competition Alpine skiers were threatened with expulsion after they were involved with a ski camp and hence were considered professional In the end only Austrian Carl Schantz the guy who saw the men in black last time Was stopped from competing as he made the most money Canada began a period where they boycotted ice hockey due to concerns about soviet players not being amateurs The soviet union returned to the top spot in the medal count 1006 athletes from 35 countries competed in 35 events and there were no demonstration sports A return to Europe for the 1976 winter queues at Innsbruck Austria for the second time Denver, Colorado was originally selected, but their state voted to reject funding it In succession whistler, uh, British Canada and British Columbia, Canada Then salt lake city were considered before the previous austrian site was selected This was the first winter queues. I remember watching on tv This was the games of Dorothy Hamill, she of the wedge haircut and endless commercials afterward Franz Klammer won the men's downhill, which abc covered with over a dozen cameras on the course Skiing went high tech with sleek suits helmets in the end of wooden skis Cross country skier Galina Kulakova was disqualified for using a nasal spray that included ephedrine As do most of the over-the-counter sprays the first stripped medal of winter queues Taiwan competed for the last time under the republic of china flag This was an ongoing issue after this they would compete as chinese Taipei Again, the soviet union won the most medals 1123 athletes from 37 countries competed in 37 events with no demonstration sports I always thought it was a little unfair to say that the ussr won the most medals because it's really like, you know, 10 countries or whatever Right, that was always the issue 1980 queues saw another veteran city lake class in new york get the games the big story there Of course was the miracle on ice The us beat the ussr in hockey using the youngest team in us history What people don't remember is this was the semifinal They actually had to then beat finland to win the gold which they did Al michaels became a legendary commentator with do you believe in miracles? Yes In 1999 this was named the top sports moment of the 20th century Eric hyden swept men's speed skating including four queues and one world record Delivering all but one of the us's gold medals for that queues the other being hockey And it's still the most won by a single person in winter queues The men's 15 kilometer cross country skating event skiing event saw the closest win ever at 0.01 seconds The people's republic of china attended queues for the first time artificial snow was used for the first time at queues Despite having held the event previously lake placid had issues transportation staff who has left Inspectors out in the cold for hours many tickets were left unsold You can actually still buy them as souvenirs in the area Yet again the soviet union topped the medal count A 1072 athletes from 37 countries competed in 38 events with no demonstration sports The 1984 queues was held in sarahe sarajevo in the former yugoslavia Currently the capital of bosnia and Herzogovina By the 90s the queues venues would be the site of intense fighting during the bosnian war This was the first queues under the legendary ioc president Juan Antonio samaranch This is the greatest olympics in all of time The queues flag was mistakenly rated raised upside down during the opening ceremonies In ice dancing torval and dean won a perfect artistic score something that has yet to be repeated Catarina witt won the first of two golds in figure skating east germany won the most gold medals But the soviet union eaked out a win in total medals 1272 athletes from 49 countries competed in 39 events The huge jump in the number of countries was due to a new queues program where the ioc would cover the cost of one Male and female athlete from each nation. This is why the march of nations is so long today Disabled alpine skiing was added as a demonstration sport. I can't believe we're still talking about the winter queues game I know This might be too much. Yeah, so I guess we may actually do a third part yikes In the meantime, you can check out our audio podcast how I got my wife to read comics on itunes or on our website sfpodcastnetwork.com from the pop culture bunker. I'm indy and i'm mark. Thanks for watching It's the agony of defeat