Franz Klammer - 1976 Olympic Gold Medal Run
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While skiing yesterday I thought back to watching this live on TV when I was a kid and I was very happy to find it here on YouTube. If you want to see his actual run, skip ahead to 1:33.
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I remember seeing this live, and being amazed. In the moment, you didn't know if he would win or crash. Such abandon I have never seen before or since in the sport of skiing. Just great.
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This shows why people watch sports. Every time there is a chance that you will see something that you have never seen before and will not see again. Thank goodness for Youtube so you can relive this. Skiing's Golden Age. I remember it as being one of the most exciting moments ever in sport (on a par with Troy winning the Epsom Derby and Jonny Wilkinson's drop goal to win the 2003 Rugby World Cup).
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christ im going skiing for the first time tomorrow..
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Can't believe I found this. Indelible 6th grade memory. Heroic! And I'll never forget the excellence in sportsmanship that Bernhard Russi showed as his hopes for Olympic gold fell -- to me just as impressive as Klammer's downhill.
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Franz is why I always try to almost wipe out when i take a turn. After I saw this run I knew nothing mattered, form, style who cares, just don't stop...Thank you Franz!!!
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When's a film going to be made about him?
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When sportscaster Frank Gifford (who did the play-by-play in this clip) retired, he stated in an interview that this was the greatest sporting event he broadcast, even though he did fifteen years of "NFL Monday Night Football", six Olympics, and a couple of Super Bowls, among others.
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I remember seeing this live in '76. It was like watching a runaway freight train that you expected to crash but somehow made it safe to the bottom. Talk about giving it your best shot!
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I also remember this run and it was by far the coolest thing that I had ever seen in the Olympics until the 1980 U.S. Hockey Team.
He put it ALL on the line. How could you not root for him.
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I am an African-American male and I do not follow skiing at all. But if you were to ask me to name one Downhill skier, I would say without hesitation Franz Klammer. I was 14 years old when I saw this live and, 34 years later, it has stayed with me to this day. I was amazed. He was gonna win or die trying.
ranhill 1 year ago 12
I was 13 when I saw this and I will never forget it. Even watching this run now, 34 years later, it gave me a rush like nothing else. Never have I seen anyone do anything so completely on the edge between success and death, focusing a lifetime's worth of training into the most intense, frightening and exhilarating sports moment ever. Beautiful.
travelinlightbill 1 year ago 7