Possible Clues:

• Slinky's shape
• The Inferno briefly has nine in a circle that winds around and around
• Team the French finally vanquish, having turned the screw
• Screw thread, e.g.
• Screw
• Auger shape
• Spring, perhaps
• Genetic structure
• Head start for the Spanish eleven returning from Dublin venue
• Structure made up of a continuous series of loops