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When you watch the speed events on the box, somewhat emasculated by the way tv fails to portray the speed effectively and flattens the gradients, cast your mind back to the last time a Frenchman won the Olympic downhill, Nagano in 1998.
We often hear of the Herminator's horrific motorcycle accident and his battle back to fitness - but who remembers his incredible crash in the same race that Jean-Luc Crétier took the Olympic title?
THE crash (Windows Media Player, high speed)
THE crash (Real Player, high speed)
And then think that he picked himself up, and won gold medals in Super G and Giant Slalom just days later....
Hermann Maier had the flu yesterday - and still didn't do so badly. Who would write him off for a podium or two before these Games are finished...
Anyone read his biography?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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IncogSkiSno, my copy is on the way from Amazon right now....took a couple of weeks to dispach though
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CEM, Have you read Bodie Miller's yet? I might get that too. 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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IncogSkiSno, no can't stand the bloke, but i have ordered Alain Baxters biography
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CEM, Ah yes, I might have to get 3 books for my trip then
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IncogSkiSno, order them sharpish amazon are being a bit slow at present....unless you have another place to get them
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CEM, I have 4 weeks until my trip, I don't usually order online, is it much cheaper then?
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CEM, You should know that IncogSkiSnot, fancies Bodie Miller 
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IncogSkiSno, not really looked elsewhere, but your average waterstones did not have either in stock at Xmas
snowbunny, why?????
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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CEM,
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snowbunny, why?????
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Nowt as strange as folk...as they allegedly say oop north 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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IncogSkiSno, feel free! I'll start a Bode one elsewhere, if you like 
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You know it makes sense.
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PG, Oh no, it will only enourage IncogSkiSno, 
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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PG, It might help if I could spell his name correctly in the first place 
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Poster: A snowHead
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IncogSkiSno, stalkers .....know your victim (or at least how to spell his name)
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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IncogSkiSno, problem with the mogul chicks as you call them is that in 10 years time they will all be recovering from several rounds of spinal surgery and new knee caps........that to me is just too high maintenance
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snowbunny, IncogSkiSno, neither of you ladies are recovering from spinal surgery following a bumps skiing career ...are you??
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CEM, You were right about the book. Waterstones have ordered it for me, but they are not sure if they are getting any in as they are arriving from the States. 
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The Crash is incredible. To get up an win gold a couple of days later is almost beyond belief. -Respect
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I'm reading it right now. I think it's an excellent read along the lines of 'Its not about the bike' Which is another highly recommended read.
I got it from thebookdepository but ordered through Amazon. Came in three days.
Don't bother with the high street. It's rubbish...
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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| IncogSkiSno, problem with the mogul chicks as you call them is that in 10 years time they will all be recovering from several rounds of spinal surgery and new knee caps........that to me is just too high maintenance |
.... but it does mean that it will be difficult for them to escape hehehe.
For the record Traa is not my type.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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You know it makes sense.
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CEM, Why on earth would you think you'd have to maintain anyone? Bl**dy cheek!
I can't bear to watch that crash anymore - hurts too much. Herminator is totally amazing and deserves everything he gets in the way of medals. I don't suppose any other sportsman or woman has ever come back from more serious injury.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Poster: A snowHead
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easiski, Clearly CEM, thinks women are an expensive lot,....too expensive 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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snowbunny, no no no , i just know what a career in bumps skiing does to your body....compresses vertibrae, trashes knees etc etc.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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CEM,
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snowbunny, no no no , i just know what a career in bumps skiing does to your body....compresses vertibrae, trashes knees etc etc.
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Just teasing...but then again you ARE a Scotsman 
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easiski, i think that Greg Lemonds comeback to win the Tour de France after a horrible hunting accident and Armstrong's comeback after the cancer are maybe in the same league? The Herminator is fantastic, but is hardly the first sportsman to overcome a crippling injury (that is crippling for the normal human being)
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sugardaddy, ...and Nikki Lauda's return wasn't bad either!
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From memory - didn't they move one of the gates and he wasn't told about it, which was the reason for the crash ?
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sugardaddy, I'm not sure that cancer can be put in the same league. Armstrong wasn't right at the top when he got it - he "made it" afterwards (at least as far as the T de F is concerned). I don't know too much about Greg Lamond's accident, but Hermann .... The docs were insisting they cut off his leg - it was completely smashed (not broken) - it was in little pieces - he refused and look at what he's done since .... big respect
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Back to skiing books.....can totally say that Baxter's book is well worth a read. Well written and really great stuff about his early days in Scotland.
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Jake,
got to agree, i know the guy personally so it makes it even more remarkable.
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I shall have to buy it for myself for my next skiing trip read. I would love The Herminator to win something 
Even you aint that weird 
