Guns, Motorbikes, Assassins on Skis and the Wildest Race on the Olympic Slopes| Entertainment News
The wildest race ever held in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy, began with a man in a blue jacket flinging himself off the Trampolino Olimpico ski jump, dodging the bullets of a champion biathlete and ripping down the mountain and through trees while being chased by assassins on motorcycles. The most watched skiing in Cortina wasn’t at the Olympics. It was in a James Bond movie. To elude them, he skis directly onto an Olympic bobsled track. He careens down the sheet of ice at 50 miles per hour, uses one of the final turns as a launchpad, flies out of the bob run and over a ski chalet to safety. He was neither shaken nor stirred. Once again, James Bond had escaped certain death. But this time, 007 unclipped his skis and found himself at the bottom of a mountain that is now the site of the Milan Cortina Games. As the Olympics come back to Cortina, which hosted the Winter Games in 1956, the world’s best skiers are returning to slopes immortalised by another blockbuster …
