Austrian great Franz Klammer says the winner of the men's downhill in . Yet the 18-year-old turned out to be the victim of the political storm that eliminated her teammate Karl Schranz, unfairly disqualified by the IOC at the beginning of the Games for having apparently earned endorsement money as a ski racer. Franz Klammer - 1976 Olympic Downhill Gold Medal performance Rambo Nov 4, 2009 1 2 Next Nov 4, 2009 #1 Rambo Member Joined Sep 8, 2008 Messages 890 Points 16 Location Binghamton, NY Anybody remember this? Safety had increased. Old School. Two or three times we tried to bring a good story. Innsbruck 1976 | Olympic Winter games. Bernhard Russi stared up at the massive 1976 Olympic downhill course at Innsbruck, Austria, clinging to the fastest time of the day and waiting for one final top racer: Austrian star Franz Klammer . But, with Eva, it was immediate. And then I came down. Klammer, age 19, followed this up with a third at St. Moritz and a third in the giant slalom at Mont Sainte-Anne (the only time he finished on the podium in a World Cup Giant Slalom in his career). After trailing Russi by .20 of a second at the second intermediate time he made up more than half a second on the bottom portion of the course to win in 1:45.73. Alongside the ski track outside Innsbruck, 60,000 fans lined the piste. I think it is the most exciting Olympics event I've ever seen. He was adorable, said Witt of her time with La Bomba. Across all of Austria, there was nary a single person on a village street. His career total is 26 downhill wins: 25 World Cup and 1 Olympic. As a sportscaster Mr. Beattie was renowned for his call, with Frank Gifford, of the Austrian Franz Klammer's gold medal-winning downhill race at the 1976 Winter Games in Innsbruck,. I always thought, I will never be able to find a woman who Im going to love, said Klammer, pausing to collect his thoughts. He was 21st on a day where Austria swept the first nine places behind winner Hermann Maier. Options: Reply Quote Re: Where to find Franz Klammer 1976 Innsbruck downhill video? To shoot the film, producers literally took over Patscherkofel, taking the revered race course back in time. Right: Schwarzenegger and Maierat the FIS Alpine WorldChampionships in Schladming in February 2013. The mind of a downhill skier - Franz Klammer. Viewers will find a film filled with suspense and an endearing love story. There is tough and turny Patscherkofel above Innsbruck, site of the 1976 Olympics and the magnificent victory of the Austrian Franz Klammer in a performance that is considered the best single downhill run ever made. They tried to do some kind of a glamour biopic.. Their excitement is palpable. We should do a feature on it with Arnold, he said. Second in the season-long battle for the downhill crystal globe in 1973, he turned up the heat in 1975 winning eight World Cup downhills and taking the season title. I thought, Franz is the most famous Carinthian and we should do something with him, said Kresse. Many of the top guns failed to control their line in the tricky parts of the course. Every set of Austrian eyes were tuned in to ORF across the far corners of the land. This article first appeared in the January/February 2014 issue of Skiing History magazine. Hes loved by everybody and he had an amazing career. What happened next was the creation of a legend. He and Elisabeth dissected the story to determine how they could tell Klammers story and keep the attention of an audience 45 years after his famous ride down Patscherkofel. We became close friends and it was fun, said Klammer. Three years ago, Kresse tried one more time. A Silver was not an option to the Austrians, especially to lose on their home field against their most important rival. Pochlatko tracked down the director to talk about his engagement in telling Franz story. He won his first aged only 19 in 1973 and including four victories in the Hahnenkamm at Kitzbuhel. Its very special that Franz grew up in Carinthia, just 10 minutes from my house., Every year, Mayer joins legions of followers to the local Tour de Franz cycling event. The legendary skier Franz Klammer. [1], In an interview with Tom Brokaw that aired on NBC on 13 February 2010, as part of their 2010 Winter Olympics coverage, American Olympian Bode Miller cited Klammer's style and approach to ski racing as a major source of inspiration for him. At the end of the 1975 season, despite having won 8 of 9 downhills, he finished third for the overall World Cup title. And hes still a big hero today., Mayer echoed the pride of his Austrian state. Plus historical audio featuring ABC sportscaster Frank Gifford on the 1976 Innsbruck Olympics and the gold medal Franz Klammer downhill run that inspired this trip. Franz Klammer produced one of the most thrilling moments in alpine racing history with his reckless gold-medal run on the treacherous Patscherkofel downhill course at Innsbruck, Austria in February 1976. I've won so many things, without the Olympic title it would have been a good career, but not a great career. The Olympic Games plus the FIS World Championships, Franz Klammer was also crowned World Champion on that day. Few past stars of ski sport command attention today like Franz Klammer. Literally, the entire mountain was shaking, said Russi. But it was also complex. He remains the king of the downhill, the most successful skier of anyone in his discipline in the World Cup. I was amused later to discover that I was the only skier who dared to take that line. One of the most exciting sports events I have ever witnessed was Franz Klammers 1976 Winter Olympic run for the gold in the downhill. Schmied literally grew up with the Klammer legend. Everyones heart was in their throats and on the edge of their seat. Instead, he was born in the southernmost Austrian state of Carinthia, a region with lesser-known mountains and a bit outside the ski racing spotlight. Newspaper. This was the 1976 Winter Olympic Games in Innsbruck - the men's downhill, the blue riband event - and the yellow flash was Franz Klammer, Austrian national hero and pre-race favourite. And still, he does everything right! They will be captivated by the storyline and the tension leading up to the race. Another surprise was revealed later when my father, World Cup founder Serge Lang, intrigued by Patricks last name, discovered that he was a double national: Austrian, as he was born in that country from an Austrian mother, but also French through his dad, a cook from Alsace, who had emigrated to Lech to work, raise a family and run the Montana Hotel there. Born: Dec. 3, 1958 (Mooswald, Carinthia, Austria) At his peak (Wengen 1976 to Wengen 1977), Klammer won ten consecutive downhills, including the pressure-laden win at the 1976 Olympics. Andreas dug into the story with his wife Elisabeth, a former journalist who is now a screenwriter and novelist. Chasing the Line is palpable. In an interview before the Games, La Bomba told the press that his dad, Franco, might buy him a Ferrari if he clinched two gold medals in Canadaa mission he accomplished by winning the slalom and the GS. He did all the action shots, said Schmied. Above: Maier on the GS course in Nagano. In the 1976 Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, the stakes rose. Everyone knows the Kaiser. Klammer would go on to have an unprecedented career. I was fourteen and was at a friends house. Franz Klammer, a former champion alpine ski racer, has a net worth of $45 million. Most recently this includes the downhill course at Jeongseon for the PyeongChang 2018 Games. He showed me plenty of tricks and we had so much fun, she told me afterwards as we sat down to enjoy hot chocolate and cakes. His rival, Russi, drew number 3 the optimum start position given weather conditions. The Austrian set an impressive record of 62 victories and 115 podium finishes on the World Cup tour in only 175 competitions. [citation needed]. The World Cup had only been formally established in 1967. Franz Klammer gets police protection from an enthusiastic crowd after his victory. Klammers only hope was to chase a line that no one felt could be skied. At the 1976 Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria, Russi nearly retained his Olympic title with a very fast time in the downhill at Patscherkofel, but took the silver medal. Hes let his skis do the talking over the years and has won a place in the hearts of Austrians well, to a degree. Yet this time, she was the hunter: Nadig had dominated the previous downhill races, winning six out of seven, as well as a giant slalom. Franz Klammer. Sep 26, 2013 - This is nearly the entire Franz Klammer Gold Medal Run from the Innsbruck Winter Olympics of 1976. His formidable appearance, his determination on the slopes, and his numerous victories in the weeks prior to his trip to Japan had led reporters to use rougher nicknames, like The Beast, which Maier didnt like at all. And there is this one teacher who says, follow your dreams, or whatever. "The most important victory for a downhiller is Kitzbuhel because in my opinion it's the most complete race," Austrian legend Franz Klammer, the 1976 Olympic downhill champion, told CNN Sport. I had seen in training that a few skiers, including Ken Read of Canada, had tested a straighter yet very risky line there. This is where most biopics fail. Even today, he is emotional in telling it. But repeated attempts have failed. But she still appeared confident heading into the Games. Klammer dominated the downhill event for four consecutive World Cup seasons (197578). Klammer and Strobl became lifelong friends, sharing a hunting lodge in late September before the films debut in Zurich. Theres a lot of character to it where it meanders down the mountain into turns and and really cool knolls and bumps to catch some air.. Apparently they also threw quite a party at Arnies suite at the Hyatt Hotel to celebrate the wins. Originals 01:56. It was the best babysitter because I was already out there on skis, skiing up and down to a little village up in the mountain. He is not only legendary as a skier, hes just a very great person.. At his peak (Wengen 1976 to Wengen 1977), Klammer won ten consecutive downhills, including the pressure-laden win at the 1976 Olympics. His final World Cup race was in March 1985 at Aspen, Colorado. Pepi Fischer was omnipresent, pushing hard to force Klammer to use his new ski. Four years later, they met for dinner and a private ski lesson. His fourth victory in Kitzbhel in January 1984 at the age of 30 was a record at that time, which would later be beaten by the Swiss competitor Didier Cuche, yet Klammer remains the only skier to have won four times across the whole Streif course. Having followed her career since her first victory in 1970, it was electrifying to hug her after the press conferencea record-setting athlete who had become a good friend. The 51 minute-documentary Klammer gegen Russi - Das Rennen ihres Lebens from film director Michael Bhler will be available on Play Suisse from 4 February and broadcasted tonight on SRF 1 at 20:05. Originals 01:52. Sporting Legends. I remember the race we were in the living room watching on TV in black and white, said Salmina, who was 11 at the time. . I worked as a ski instructor when I was a student. While Klammers Olympic spot was fixed, his teammates were battling for start rights in training. So I changed the line completely. For nearly a half-century, the story of the country boy finding gold has begged for the silver screen. [citation needed] He was the defending World Cup downhill champion and had won the three previous downhills in January at Wengen, Morzine and Kitzbhel, and also the previous year's race on the same Patscherkofel course. Don't forget this was 1976. So I won it.. In the 1975 season he won 8 of 9 World Cup downhill races, including his first of three consecutive victories (197577) on the prestigious Streif on the Hahnenkamm at Kitzbhel. Curling. His yellow racing suit wasnt as crisp and flashy as the other golden Austrian uniforms. Amazingly, the victory comes eight years after his Olympic Games victory in Innsbruck. Russi vividly recalls the long wait in the finish and the momentum of the crowd that carried Franz Klammer to victory. Thanks to special accreditations, we were standing right at the rink when Witt started to perform. We were a team."eattie served as a commentator for ABC Sports coverage of alpine skiing at the Winter Olympics from 1976 to 1988. ski team historian Tom Kelly last . Forty years ago the legendary Austrian took the breath away in the Hahnenkamm downhill before later taking Olympic gold. My father had one of the very first VCR recorders, a clunky JVC in 1976 and captured this direct from the broadcast to a Scotch 3M VHS tape. Downhill courses are the monsters of alpine skiing: 9,000-foot-long beasts with steep pitches that combine to build tremendous speed. Olymipc downhill champion 1976 (Innsbruck). And she is still playing one of the most important roles in my life. It was always a big goal for me to be like Franz Klammer. In 1975 he had dominated the event in a fashion never seen before by winning 8 out of the nine downhill races of the season. Your email address will not be published. But it lacked an antagonist someone to create tension. Somehow he survived, etching his name into history with a .33-second margin over Russi. 01:59. The Italian skier, closely followed by a crew from a U.S. network, was proudly wearing his two Olympic gold medals around his neck. They met later that year in Italy during an exhibitionand then again four years later at Les Menuires, the site of the slalom race for the 1992 Albertville Games. Ryan didnt need much time to get hold of Schwarzeneggers Austrian-born ski instructor, Adi Erber, and to organize a crew to do an interview with the movie star. Darren Glen 1.1M views 3 years ago Frank Gifford discusses covering Franz Klammer's Olympic. We were lucky to get him here.. Background Born into a farming family in Mooswald, community Fresach, Carinthia, in 1953. Every 4 years at the Winter Olympics, the premier event is the mens downhill. Russi was beaten by 33 hundredths of a second. Their story was truly one for the big screen. Its about skiing to school each day, always enjoying that feeling of sliding on snow. Born into a farming family in Mooswald, community Fresach, Carinthia, and like many alpine farm boys, Klammer skied to school each winter day. Kids call the Jamaican . But Franz Klammer's career took an exceptional turn when he won in front of a huge crowd during the Innsbruck Games on 5 February 1976. Entering the 1976 Winter Olympics, the 22-year-old Klammer was the favourite to take the gold medal in the downhill at Innsbruck in his native Austria. He won the gold medal in the downhill event at the 1976 Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria. He was paired with Frank Gifford to call one of the Winter Olympics' most famous ski races for ABC - Austrian great Franz Klammer's electric downhill run to capture gold in 1976. Klammer, along with fellow Carinthia natives Fritz Strobl and Matthias Mayer, form a unique trio of Olympic downhill champions more than any other Austrian state, even the Tyrol. He had won the pre-Olympic downhill on Patscherkofel over Russi in 1975. Rahlves, too, is in a fascinating place in Austrian ski history. In 1990, Klammer won a round of the prestigious European Touring Car Championship. And what are you doing? Im studying medicine. And that was all we talked about. Franz Klammer is an Austrian former Alpine ski racer known for dominating the Downhill skiing discipline. After his skiing career, he became a racing driver and raced touring cars until the 1990s. The blow-by-blow delivered over the PA system didnt help their nervesKlammer was behind the leaders at the intermediate times. There is Schladming in Austria, where crowds of 30,000 or more stand along its wild drop-off schuss to the finish. It was a crazed run to Olympic glory, up on one ski then the other, crossing back and forth through the pine boughs, sliding perilously close to the fence. The media were omnipresent. So thats the thing, you know?, Last month the two met again at the Zurich Film Festival for a screening of. His career total is 26 downhill wins: 25 World Cup and 1 Olympic. They were excited and I knew I won it. A dozen years later, Fischer had a strong racing product. Franz Klammer is one of the all-time legendsof skiing. Five World Cup downhill crystal globes (most ever for men). Italy's Gustav Thni defeated Sweden's Ingemar Stenmark in the finals and won his fourth overall title in five years. The 1974-75 winter was practically perfect for Kaiser . He remembered that day in 1976 as a six-year-old boy, crowded together with his kindergarten classmates watching on a miniature television at school. Two years later, they moved to Brightwood, Oregon, near Mount Hood, and Johnson later attended Sandy Union High School in Sandy. But young Franz loved the snow, skiing to school in the winter and climbing up hills on his own to come racing back down. And it meant 100% commitment. Ortlieb is a well-known name in Alsace; I think I know some of his relatives, explained Lang, who was also born in Alsace in 1920. I was so focused, I was so concentrated, just on the run and then half-way down, I was looking at the crowd, kind of now I'd better do something to win the race. And the two met that night at The Londoner forging both a friendship and a partnership in telling the story of ski racing that has spanned nearly two decades. As a consolation prize, Proell won the FIS gold medal for her success in the three-event combined, yet she apparently threw the medal away after receiving it. Franz Klammer records his fourth victory on the famed Hahnenkamm in Kitzbuhel, Austria. And Schmied and Schmidt hit it out of the park. Championships in Schladming in February 2013. Chasing the Line, it would have been easy to simply pull archival footage to build a documentary story. So I decided to take even more risks.. For some, that means weekends with the family driving to a ski resort. I made a huge jump and thought I would crash, yet I managed to survive and land on my skis. But in that year, 1975, I had won all the World Cup races. The other favorites were not as gutsy or crazy. His younger brother, Klaus, was paralyzed from the waist down due to a downhill ski accident when the boy was 16. He retired from international competition at age 31.Klammer finished with 26 World Cup victories, 45 podiums and 87 top ten finishes (71 downhill, 5 combined, 11 giant slalom). He slid his Fischer C4s back and forth, stretching his legs. At 1.35 is when he takes a line that no other skier dared to on the day and that is to cut harder left, slingshotting him forward faster. Two years later, bothTomba and Witt competed again at Lillehammer. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Enter your email address to get the news and post directly to your e-mail. Media coverage was moving into a golden era, with more live television and a bigger platform for burgeoning sport stars. Today, Franz Klammer is a paid ambassador for several ski resorts and corporations. There was plenty of passion and experience with Salmina, whose Mount St. Elias and Streif were captivating works. 5 February 1976, Innsbruck - Franz Klammer writes the greatest page of his story He remains the king of the downhill, the most successful skier of anyone in his discipline in the World Cup. The last, 11 years later in 1984, at the age of 30, is worthy of a second movie. Two-time world champion and former alpine ski racer who dominated the four consecutive seasons of the World Cup in the downhill event, Standing aloof as the extraordinary defining rider in an alpine ski Franz Klammer protrudes among those alpine ski heroes. Jean-Claude Killy. So I decided to take even more risks.. Finally in December 1981, after another ski change from Kneissl to Blizzard, he won at Val-d'Isre. Im a passionate skier myself. Memorable Moments. After his victories, Alberto told me hed be pleased to watch East Germanys attractive superstar Katarina Witt competing at the ice arena in Calgary. Franz Klammer recalls, By the time I walked into the starting gate, I knew I am going to win. And there was only one leftit was Franz Klammer. Russi continued; Franz Klammer was in the starting gate. The other challenge faced by Rahlves was the need to intentionally ski out of control. If there . He knew what was necessary to show and not to over act. Franz is a testimonial for skiing, said Kresse. He met fans who vividly re-lived their own experiences of Feb. 5, 1976. On race day, she stayed laser-focused as she made her way down the course, despite strong gusts of wind that disturbed some of her main rivals, including Nadig. I had to ski out of control and make these little mistakes everywhere. He had a few interesting moments, skis up against the old picket fence, but never any really close calls. 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