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The Men's slalom competition of the Squaw Valley 1960 Olympics was held on February 24 at Squaw Valley. [1] [2]The defending world champion was Josl Rieder of Austria. [3]During the event, race officials asked CBS if they could review videotape of the race because of a controversy about one skier who was alleged to have missed a gate.
The downhill race start was at the top of Squaw Peak at an elevation of 2,707 m (8,881 ft). The course length was 3.095 km (1.923 mi), with a vertical drop of 758 m (2,487 ft). The course length was 3.095 km (1.923 mi), with a vertical drop of 758 m (2,487 ft).
Competitions took place at Squaw Peak (Men's downhill), KT-22 (Women's downhill, Men's slalom and giant slalom), and Papoose Peak (Women's slalom and giant slalom). [1] [2] The 1960 Winter Games marked the last where race result times were recorded in tenths of a second; at the 1964 Winter Games, the race result times would be recorded in ...
Squaw Valley, now called Palisades Tahoe, was a struggling ski resort with minimal facilities, which made its selection to host the 1960 Winter Olympics a surprise. [2] [3] Wayne Poulsen and Alexander Cushing were inspired to bid for the Olympics by a newspaper article mentioning that Reno, Nevada, and Anchorage, Alaska, had expressed interest in the Games.
Palisades Tahoe is a ski resort in the western United States, located in Olympic Valley, California, northwest of Tahoe City in the Sierra Nevada range. From its founding in 1949, the resort was known as Squaw Valley, but it changed its name in 2021 due to the derogatory connotations of the word "squaw".
The Women's downhill competition of the Squaw Valley 1960 Olympics was held at Squaw Valley on Saturday, February 20. [1] [2]The defending world champion was Lucile Wheeler of Canada, [3] who had retired the previous year; defending Olympic champion Madeleine Berthod of Switzerland did not compete in this event.
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Wilson was a member of the U.S. Nordic Ski Team Competing in Squaw Valley, California, in 1960. He skied the 30K. Finishing 43rd, the reverse of the number on his racing bib. He later commented he somehow ended up with the wrong bib! Based on his results in the pre-Olympics, on the same courses in 1959, he should have placed much higher.