When the Olympic Games came to Innsbruck the following year, there was great pressure on Klammer as an Austrian favourite competing in Austria. Defending champion Bernhard Russi exerted further ...

Three weeks before the start of the Alpine World Ski Championships in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, skiing legend Franz Klammer doesn't think the local ski association - especially the men - are ready.

Franz Klammer, an Austrian downhill racer, said Vonn has "gone completely mad." On Austrian TV, Downhill and Super G Olympic gold medalist Michaela Dorfmeister asked, "Does she want to kill herself?" ...

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For the downhill race at the Winter Olympics 1976 in Innsbruck, there could only be one favourite: Franz Klammer. The charismatic Austrian racer carried the hopes of the whole nation on his shoulders.

Barely 22, Franz Klammer finds himself at the “eye of the storm” when he shows up for the men’s downhill competition at the 1976 Winter Olympic Games. Since the previous season the ...

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