Austrian heroics @ Olympics Torino 2006

[CelticsGM]

Oh what a marvelous performance from tiny Austria in the Olympic Winter Games just completed.

An Austrian olympic record 23 medals, including 9 golden ones, 3rd in the medal count only behind Germany and USA, but ahead of great winter sports countries like Russia, Canada, an Norway.

Austria not only completely dominated the Alpine Skiing events, taking home 14 of 30 possible medals (4 golden) including a clean sweep of the men's slalom taking the top 3 spots to end it, but also topped the ski jumping and nordic combined events.

Just amazing, just amazing ...
 

[BlazersGM]

who cares, we still have the best female skiier  

[CelticsGM]

Who would that be?

You're not talking bout Michaela Dorfmeister, taking home gold in the downhill and super-g, do you ? No, she's Austrian ...
 

[BlazersGM]

im talking about Janica who would take all golds if she was not with a fever and very sick so she decided to not run 2 races and went home before super slalom, however she took medals again and she would have taken more if she was not with a 40 C fever and exhausted,......you know what im talking about, and we all know who is the Queen  

[CelticsGM]

im talking about Janica who would take all golds if she was not with a fever and very sick so she decided to not run 2 races and went home before super slalom, however she took medals again and she would have taken more if she was not with a 40 C fever and exhausted,......you know what im talking about, and we all know who is the Queen  

Oh THAT lady.

yeah, she is always injured, even when winning gold medals. It was big comedy (last world champ'ships i think it was) when she raced down the slalom fastest in both runs and pretended not even being able to walk before, inbetween runs and after that.

She must be some sort of superhero on kryptonite ...


And I got to know,was she ill when she didnt start in the downhill (where she hardly had a chance for a medal anyway) or later when she won gold in the combined or later when she finished 13th in the slalom or later when she was 2nd in the super-g or later when she opted out of the giant slalom due to fatigue (what from ???)  

[KingsGM-old]

Are you questioning the quality of the greatest female skiier of all time?

[RaptorsGM]

Oh what a marvelous performance from tiny Austria in the Olympic Winter Games just completed.

An Austrian olympic record 23 medals, including 9 golden ones, 3rd in the medal count only behind Germany and USA, but ahead of great winter sports countries like Russia, Canada, an Norway.

Austria not only completely dominated the Alpine Skiing events, taking home 14 of 30 possible medals (4 golden) including a clean sweep of the men's slalom taking the top 3 spots to end it, but also topped the ski jumping and nordic combined events.

Just amazing, just amazing ...
 

Oh. Oh no, you didn't. Have a look again, a HARD look.

1 Germany 11 12 6 29
2 United States 9 9 7 25
3 Canada 7 10 7 24
4 Austria 9 7 7 23

[BlazersGM]

Whatever, the world knows who is the best !

...and yes, she had many problems with injurys and now sickness and she is not a type of person who is faking up an injury, she is a warrior, but even a warrior has to quit sometimes like she did this Olympics cause it was just too much and too risky for her to race the last one as well, she would do that race like always but then she is already most succesfull olympic medallist in history and there is still WC to win so risk was too big this time.


.........and tell me have u ever seen a women racing the slalom without a stick and moving 4 positions and making best time of the race without a stick which she did in january ???? it was an amazing stuff, unseen in the history....you austrians are just jelous hehehhe  

[BlazersGM]

lets get it boogie with it

[BlazersGM]

this carnaval thing is nuts

[BlazersGM]

whole country stops and nothing works its amazing how ridicolous it is

[SixersGM]

The biggest question is..

Who is the hottest female athlete who competed in the winter olympics?

[CelticsGM]

Whatever, the world knows who is the best !

...and yes, she had many problems with injurys and now sickness and she is not a type of person who is faking up an injury, she is a warrior, but even a warrior has to quit sometimes like she did this Olympics cause it was just too much and too risky for her to race the last one as well, she would do that race like always but then she is already most succesfull olympic medallist in history and there is still WC to win so risk was too big this time.


.........and tell me have u ever seen a women racing the slalom without a stick and moving 4 positions and making best time of the race without a stick which she did in january ???? it was an amazing stuff, unseen in the history....you austrians are just jelous hehehhe  

Now don't get me wrong, she is a great skier, together with Anja Paerson probably the most complete female skier in this generation now - both can win any event (especially the technical, not so the speed events) - and that's why these two won 2 overall world cups each in recent years. And both race in every single world cup event each year.

For the "best ever" discussion, here's an interesting list:
Women's All-time Super Ranking
1  Annemarie Proell AUT 314,5
2  Vreni Schneider SUI 266
3  Katja Seizinger GER 191
4  Janica Kostelic CRO 173,5
5  Anja Paerson SWE 162,5
from a great stats site: http://www.ski-db.com/

These Olympics clearly weren't her's, but she's still THE MOST SUCCESSFUL FEMALE ALPINE SKIER in Winter Olympics history (not most successful athlete in general and especially not counting summer games too).  To only look at active skiers, Kjetil Andre AAMODT gets the nod winning 8 or 9 medals (4 gold) in the last FIVE Olympic games.


But that slalom ride when she lost the glove and stick was sure something special. It HAS BEEN DONE before, I remember people even WINNING races after losing a stick (Janica finished 2nd this time), but again it was a lot of fun to watch and it only shows what great trained athlete she is.

If only there wasn't that acting ...
 


But hey, jealous we don't have to be, not in a sports where we have so many successful athletes like in none other. I appreciate great performances even if accompished by foreign competitors, no doubt. Athletes like Paerson and Bode Miller are somewhat looked up to here too. Just that Kostelic family has a bad rep in Austria, Janica with her "acting like injured" job that nobody outside Croatia believes anymore (which is a pity as most of it might actually be for real) and Ivica with those stupid nazi-quotes some years ago ...

[BlazersGM]

She is just 23, if injurys dont occurr too often, in next 7-8 seasons when she will finish her career she will be the best ever for sure by statistics as well.

[BlazersGM]

The biggest question is..

Who is the hottest female athlete who competed in the winter olympics?

thats a tough question, there arent many, but one thing is sure, we have the ugliest female athlete probably that ever competed in olympics