1956 Cortina

Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956

The first Olympic Games held in Italy marked the superb skiing achievements of Toni Sailer of Austria, who won three gold medals at just twenty years of age. Ferroni, an accomplished director of peplum movies, attacks his subject with relish, filming the downhill races, and the bobsledding with bravura camerawork. The rustic environment of Cortina d'Ampezzo, nestling in the Dolomites, is captured with considerable charm and the jazz score by Angelo Francesco Lavagnino brings an added dimension to the ice hockey and other disciplines. Impeccably restored, it is one of the jewels in the crown of the Olympic film collection.

**Giorgio Ferroni | 1956 | 96' | 2014 IOC Restored Version**

Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 | Olympic Winter games

Originals

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Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 Official Film | White Vertigo

Anton Sailer becomes the first athlete to win all three alpine Olympic skiing events at the Winter Games in Italy in 1956.

Anton SAILER

Highlights

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Sailer sets new standards with skiing treble

Watch the best scenes from Soviet Union's final round matches against the USA and Canada.

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URSS road to gold - Ice Hockey | Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 Highlights

Born in 1935 in the US state of Massachusetts, Tenley Emma Albright suffered an attack of polio at the age of 11 and was encouraged by her surgeon father to take up figure skating as a form of muscle therapy\. The &ldquo;treatment&rdquo; worked so well that she would go on

Tenley ALBRIGHT

Albright overcomes severe injury to rule the ice 

Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 - Overview Mosaic

Cortin d'Ampezzo 1956 Overview Replays

Alpine Skiing

Cross-Country Skiing

Hockey

Ice Hockey

Austria

Sweden

Best Of Team Sweden, Cross-Country Mens relay in 1988, 1984, 1968, 1964, 1956, 1952, 1948 and 1936 Winter Games

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Best Of Team Sweden, Cross-Country Mens relay

Best of Team Sweden, Cross-Country Womens relay in Grenoble 1968, Innsbruck 1964 and Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956.

Olympic Winter Games Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956

Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956Highlights & Replays

URSS road to gold - Ice Hockey | Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 Highlights

All Replays

Sailer sets new standards with skiing treble

Best Of Team Sweden, Cross-Country Mens relay

Best Of Team Sweden, Cross-Country Womens relay

URSS road to gold - Ice Hockey | Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 High...