Scotland have set up base in Garmisch-Partenkirchen - the Bavarian town where a little-known Scottish sporting great enjoyed his finest hour in 1936.
Scotland have set up their Euro 2024 media base at the Olympia-Eissport-Zentrum in Garmisch-Partenkirchen - the venue where Glasgow-born Jimmy Foster won a gold medal with the Great Britain ice hockey team at the 1936 Winter OlympicsTHE name James Foster is not one which gets mentioned very often, if at all in fact, when Scotland’s greatest ever sports men and women are being discussed.
He once went an unprecedented 417 minutes, a new Canadian record, without conceding a goal and unsurprisingly became renowned as “the world’s finest goaltender”.Foster almost missed the Olympics because he had been suspended by the Canadian amateur Hockey Association for not seeking permission to play internationally with Richmond Hawks in London the year before.de Hockey sur Glace ruled that he was ineligible to compete. His ban was only lifted on the eve of the opening match.
The 1936 Winter Olympic Games lacked the controversy of the Summer Olympic Games which were held in Berlin five months later.The Nazis removed antisemitic signage around Garmisch-Partenkirchen before the competing nations arrived and allowed, under pressure of a boycott by the United States, the Jewish player Rudi Ball to represent the German ice hockey team.
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