Cold facts and cool stories

The chapter about the 1964 Innsbruck Winter Olympics in Austria contains a photo that captures a dramatic moment in the K70 ski jumping competition. The photo shows a group of photographers circling around Norwegian ski jumper Toralf Engan, who had performed so well that, even before Finnish athlete Veikko Kankkonen had completed his last jump, he was believed to have won. However, behind the photographers is Kankkonen, who had just landed an extraordinary jump and beaten Engan to the gold.

Another black-and-white photo shows Hollywood actress Audrey Hepburn and French designer and fashion icon, Jacqueline de Ribes, in attendance at the 1968 Grenoble Winter Olympics, to support the popular French Alpine skier Jean-Claude Killy.

Published before the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the book also introduces basic information about the facilities and implementation of Beijing's promise to host a green, sustainable Olympics.

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