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Accoring to a press release issued yesterday (Friday 13 April) the 1951 ski jump at Garmisch-Partenkirchen - the resort that hosted the 1936 Winter Oympics during Hitler's rule - was demolished today at 14.30hrs local time:
"Olympic ski jump in Garmisch Partenkirchen will be blasted on April 14th"
As one would expect from a German press release, this one's full of interesting technical detail:
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The judges tower will be fired first, shortly prior to the ski jump. The danger zone of the explosion will be widely secured by personnel of the Technisches Hilfswerk, the fire brigade, mountain rescue service, police and other support forces. Starting Friday, April 13th, the sensitive areas of the ski stadium will be inaccessible for the public.
The explosive used is a so called linear cutter that consists of the highly explosive Hexagon.
„Nearly 400 hours of work were used for the preparation of the detonation“, states Ulrich Ihring, chief of project of the working group Nagelschneider and Penzenstadler from Munich, commissioned by the Marktgemeinde Garmisch Partenkirchen to do the demolition of the old ski jump. |
Can anyone confirm that the jump is now on the ground and whether everything went smoothly?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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David Goldsmith, it is absolutely true. Today at 14:30 the ski jump was demolished. A crowd of 6000 people watched the demolition which went smoothly and lasted about two minutes.
A picture gallery on the demolition is here starting with a typical Bavarian band.
http://www.ksta.de/html/fotolines/1176538398803/rahmen.shtml?1
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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A squadron of Lancasters were seen flying over Garmisch at 14.30 this afternoon.
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Hopefully Garmisch is leaving plenty of its old Olympic evidence in place, as the story of the 1936 Nazi Olympics (winter and summer: Garmisch, Berlin) is pretty significant.
I've vague memories of visiting a couple of Olympic venues in Garmisch, but the skiing's worth a punt too. The Zugspitze is one of the more interesting mountains around (more from a scenic and technical point of view than the skiing) and the other area where the downhill race comes down has got some sweet runs through the woods.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Don't mention the war
This man did not ski jump in the 1936 Winter Olympics
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If the ski jump was built in 1951, it couldn't possibly have been the 'Olympic' ski jump in 1936. Or am I missing something?
There are sitll plenty of reminders of the Olympics around GAP. The whole place seems more like a museum than a ski area.
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We had a great time in Garmisch in Feb. Snow could have been better low down, but three powder days can't be bad. Lovely friendly people, very pretty scenery and the Zugspitze is great as it's a huge bowl with basically a "find your own way down" to offer pretty much everyone and you all end up at the same place (eventually...)
Having said that... I wouldn't go back until they improve the linkage between the different areas... According to our apartment owner, big changes are planned over the next few years - would be interesting to see what happens.
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carled wrote: |
According to our apartment owner, big changes are planned over the next few years - would be interesting to see what happens. |
Garmisch is the host of the Alpine WC in 2011. These changes need to take place by then. New lifts will be built and all the old lifts are replaced with new ones.
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