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The 1972 Great Britain Olympic luge team relax in a bathouse in Sapporo, Japan
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Iain Finlayson - 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics - Mens Giant Slalom
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Paquito Fernandez Ochoa - Sapporo Olympics - Closing Ceremony
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Galina Kulakova - 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics - Cross Country Skiing
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The 1972 Great Britain Olympic luge team relax in a bathouse in Sapporo, Japan
1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics
The Great Britain men's luge team relax in a bathouse in Sapporo, Japan. Pictured are Jonnie Woodall, Jeremy Palmer-Tomkinson (front left), Richard Liversedge, Rupert Deen, Stephen Marsh, and Michel de Carvalho (third from right).
Palmer-Tomkinson's father James and brother Charles were also Winter Olympians, while his neice Tara later became famous as a socialite.
de Carvalho (as Michel Ray) had enjoyed a brief Hollywood film career including the role of the Arab boy ?Faraj? in Lawrence of Arabia'. His wife Charlene is the daughter of the Dutch brewing magnate Freddy Heineken, and she inherited the family fortune in 2002
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Yukio Kasaya celebrates winning Japans first Winter Olympic gold - 1972 Sapporo Olympics - Ski Jumping
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The three Japanese jumpers who had a clean-sweep of the medals celebrate - 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics
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Sapporo Winter Olympics - Luge
Luge - 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics - Men's Doubles
East Germany's Horst Hornlein and Reinhard Bredow, the joint gold medal winners, at the Mount Teine Luge Course, Japan.
The competition provided the organisers with two problems. First, the starting gate malfunctioned, and the results of the first run were annulled. Then, after two runs, Hildgartner/Plaikner and H?¶rnlein/Bredow were tied for first place. No provisions were made for such a case, and gold medals were awarded to both teams. At the next games artificial track luge would be timed in thousandths of a second rather than hundredths of a second in an effort to avoid a repeat situation.
10/02/1972
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Sapporo Winter Olympics - Karl Schranz Disqualification Press Conference
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Irina Rodnina and Alexei Ulanov - 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics - Mixed Pairs
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Annemarie Proll - 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics - Womens Downhill
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Divina Galica - 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics - Womens Downhill
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Konrad Bartelski - 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics - Mens Downhill
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Gina Hathorn - 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics - Womens Downhill
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Valentina Iliffe - 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics - Womens Downhill
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Sapporo Winter Olympics - Karl Schranz Disqualification Press Conference
Alpine Skiing - 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics - Karl Schranz Disqualification Press Conference
International Olympic Committee President Avery Brundage announces to the world's press that Austrian skier Karl Schranz is disqualified from the Sapporo Games for breaching the Olympic amateur eligibility code by allowing his name and photograph to be used for advertising purposes'.
Brundage was the fifth President of the IOC, serving from 1952 to 1972, and is the only American to hold the position.
Schranz, the 1969 and 1970 overall World Cup champion, was the most celebrated, and highly paid, skier of the time. He did not deny the accusation but contended that he was being punished for a crime that all athletes of the day were guilty of: It's an emphasis on the wrong principle. I think the Olympics should be a contest for all sportsman with no regard of colour, race, or wealth.
The entire Austrian team threatened to boycott in solidarity, and on flying home to Vienna Schranz was greeted as a hero by a crowd of tens of thousands. Further adding insult to injury was that, at the age of 33, he had specifically delayed his retirement in order to win an Olympic gold medal, the only honour in international skiing that he had not won and which had eluded him in three previous Games. At Grenoble four years earlier he had been controversially disqualified for an on-piste incident while in first place in the slalom.
That Schranz was indeed made a scapegoat seems beyond debate. Brundage was a zealous advocate of amateurism throughout his entire career and fought against the commercialisation of the Olympic Games, even as this came to be seen as incongruous with the realities of modern sport. He viewed alpine skiing as the most flagrant violator of the amateur rules, openly and rampantly commercial with its top competitors receiving endorsements and flying around the World Cup circuit in a jet-set lifestyle while brandishing ski equipment emblazoned with manufactu
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Great Britains womens skiing team - 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics
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Carol Blackwood - 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics - Womens Downhill
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Alex Mapelli-Mozzi - 1972 Sapporo Winter Olympics - Mens Giant Slalom
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