Crazy Canuck Steve Podborski takes home the 1981-82 World Cup Downhill title.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ส.ค. 2024
- Check out this recap of the 1981-82 World Cup downhill season featuring Crazy Canucks Steve Podborski, Ken Read, Dave Irwin and a young Todd Brooker. Please take a moment and subscribe to Vintage Ski Video.
I had the good fortune of skiing in a world cup downhill race in Aspen with all 3 crazy cannucks and made friends with their coach Butch Boutry. Great downhills and great guys!
Remember my Dad who was a crazy Canuck getting me into this. Thanks Dad, Go Canada Go
These were great racing days. I went to some of the early 80's downhills in Lake Louise. And on the slalom side there were legends like Ingemar Stenmark & the Mahre brothers. Fun times, great memories of those days.
Not long after the Whistler race finish, given the annouced points totals after that race, the word went out in Whistler that Podborski had "clinched" the Downhill title....and parties broke out all over town...in EVERY bar, restaurant and private homes. The Whistler community had been waiting for this tor a very long time.
Then Mueller did if not the impossible, certainly the most improbable: He won BOTH races the following weekend in Aspen. That put him and Podborski in a points tie and they were declared "co-downhill champions" of the 81-82 season.
I'm not sure if there is anybody else that has ever won 3 WC races in a row (Klammer and Steinmark might be possibles) but that puts him in a very small club if it has ever happened at all.
I have the Fastest ski run at Sarajevo as Helferty the Speed Demon as Jason Cherniak called me as his sniper at the Olympics could not shoot me as I was too fast. I set the World Record for skiing and it still has not been broken. I did a really deep tuck and stayed that way all the way down hill as my center of gravity was really low so I had no problem with any wobbling or being too tall so off balance. I was the only one who came up with that as I analyzed the best Form for skiing as the other Skiers I was watching were getting knocked off balance by their center of gravity being too high. The lowest center of gravity is a deep tuck and staying that way all the way downhill not only was easy to ski and was fun but was the fastest time in World Ski History at 5 seconds faster than the previous World Record of Ken Reid who I trained as Team Canada as I am the 😜 Crazy Canuck. Helferty Takes Gold 🥇 In Sarajevo! 54.0 seconds!
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Alpine Skiing, more specifically Downhill racing