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The story of how a group of Canadian daredevils Olympic skiers broke the European stranglehold on downhill skiing and became the talk of the alpine circuit at and around the Innsbruck 1976 Winter Olympic Games.
The fascinating inside track on the Games talking points, pieced together with exclusive archive footage and insightful telephone interviews: bit.do/OnTheLineENGL
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I grew up in Switzerland but on the instance of watching Val D'isere in 1975 I became an instant fan of Dave Irwin and the other Crazy Canucks. But to me Dave was the man that truly stood out amongst them. In my opinion he was in a different league even to that of Franz Klammer. Unfortunately this did not last long as the second Lauberhorn race claimed his career. The canadian Team handled his severe concussion in a very bad way and only a few weeks later he stood on his skis tio thunder down the Kitzbuehl course in a training run. The constant banging around of his head this soon afterwords only compounded the problems, yet still just a little bit later Dave raced to "a commendable " (according to Read) 8th place at 1976 Olympics. This was not only commendable but incredible in terms of result but incredibly stupid in terms of decision making. I think this cost Dave irwin a carrer that none of the other Crazy Canucks ever would achieve. You want proof: then look at the race in Schladming where Irwin won by over 1.6 seconds, then the first Lauberhorn race. When observing all the skiiers entering the last curve before the jump in to the finish area, Irwin was roughly 4 seconds ahead of everyone! He then fell and continued to end up in the top 20! These are the words of the Austrian coach of that time: "Irwin had the most feel for the ski and the touch of the snow. He scared everybody with that klind of perfection when he was gliding. Irwin was my favorite for the Olympics, but then he fell, and they did not give him enough rest. they just kept him racing and racing. Scottie (canadian coach) let him race. I think Scottie ruined his career. "(Taken from the Book : The crazy Canucks, by Janet Love Morrison. Which is an incredible read and every Ski fan should read it)
Canada's speed team had much more success over the next decades: Kerrin Lee-Gartner Olympic DH gold (1992), Kate Pace World Championship DH gold (1993), Ed Podivinsky Olympic DH bronze (1994), Melanie Turgeon World Championship DH gold (2003), John Kucera World Championship DH gold (2009), Erik Guay World Championship DH and SG gold (2011, 2017) - all of them winning at least one World Cup race and there were bunch of others who did that as well: Dustin Cook, Genevieve Simard, Britt Janyk, Cary Mullen, Rob Boyd, Emily Brydon, Jan Hudec and Manuel Osborne-Paradis (last two won World Championship medals). I feel it's a pity that Canada does not recognize those achievements as it does Crazy Canucks era.
I remember watching skiing on Saturdays cheering on these guys. Steve Podborski was my fav. (cause my name is Steve) I was able to say hi to Ken Read about 8 years ago but there was like 200 people hanging around. But nonetheless I cheered for Canada and still do especially every Olympics. Only 14 months to go til the next Olympics. GO CANADA.
Legendary.... My hero's growing up in Calgary, skiing Banff/Lake Louise I always dreamed of being a Crazy Canuck. Ken went to my high school and my friends and I only bought used downhill skis (C4's, Blizzards, Elan's) 223, 225 cm whatever we could find and went as fast as we could wherever we could! No helmets, no fear......I've had an amazing career in the ski industry but I always wished I had a chance to ski and be with the Crazy Canucks!!!
These guys were legends. Incredibly talented. They fought not only the course, but the anti-Canadian bias among the traditional skiing powers. They proved it in the end though. We'll never see skiers like them in Canada ever again.
not just Canada, the whole world!
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Not to have Todd Brooker included in this is a glaring omission. Todd's best year was 1983 and he even won Kitzbuel that year along with a couple of other downhills. He was among the craziest of the Crazy Canucks.
I remember skiing with Jim Hunter at Mt. Norquay near Banff. He was awesome before the word was invented. Chiz.
Personally hard to ignore the original coach Scott Henderson whose strategy to focus on downhill to avoid the ruts and late starting order in slalom and giant slalom. This simply and decisive decision set the table for these remarkable Canadian ski racers.
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always so proud of those Crazy Canucks
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someday i will be them someday...
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