![]() During one of our training runs two days before the race, I saw how Daron Rahlves – my greatest opponent at the time – followed a very tight race line on the Hausbergkannte. In 2004 I knew that it would be my last race, so I was more eager to win than ever. Stephan, let’s talk a bit more about 2004: Did you know back then that you had that dream run in you? Eberharter: The last three years of my career were the best. Klammer: Whoever switches his brain off is making a huge mistake. Apart from that, we’d never switch our brains off on the Streif. I always say: We didn’t learn to race from one day to the next - we’ve been doing this since we were kids. ![]() The only thing I ever hear is how we must be out of our minds and that we probably just turn our brains off. That’s why “normal“ people feel the need to watch racers who dare to take on this slope. Klammer: The exciting thing is that for any normal skier, the Streif would be un-skiable, which isn’t the case in Wengen or Gröden. The combination of tradition, spectators and the race course is incomparable. What thoughts come to mind when you drive into Kitzbühel nowadays, what characterizes this place for you? Eberharter: There’s something mythical about it. I had the same binding issue before the Mausefalle once: one little bump and snap, my ski was gone.Įberharter: It’s alright as long as you don’t pull a Franz Heinzinger: he had barely started his run at the Olympic Downhill and his binding came clean off (laughs). ![]() If you ask me, the Steilhang exit isn’t just Kitzbühel’s most challenging curve, but the hardest one in the whole World Cup. Klammer: Luckily it wasn’t so bad in the end. On another note: did you see Otmar Striedinger’s crash during today’s training? His binding just came flying off. I used our first home-stereo system to record a cassette of the radio transmission and listened to it again and again for years on end. And vice versa? How did you, Stephan, experience the Klammer victories? Stephan Eberharter: I was very young at the time, but I remember the Olympic triumph like it was yesterday. What were your experiences of watching the race back then? Franz Klammer: I was in the finishing area, astounded like everyone else. Franz Klammer, in 2004 Stephan Eberharter had a dream run on the Streif.
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