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Not all great skiers come from the big resorts - here are a couple of examples .....
Michaela Dorfmeister - Unterberg, Austria
Kathrin Zettel - Hochkar, Austria
any more?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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DB, Andrea Fischbacher, Eben
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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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Lindsay Vonn, somewhere in Minnesota (in fact a lot of US skiers have been from this area).
Could perhaps be that the runs are not so long and not so steep so to get any kicks you have to race-train.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Danny Davis, Nub's Nob, Michigan. Sadly absent from the olympics after a back injury.
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Dave Ryding : Pendle 
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Does Flaucha count as a small hill despite being linked to the ski welt? If so Maier if not I shall get my coat.
Also isnt Janka from somwhere fairly small and obscure?
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DB, Filzmoos is pretty small, Schörghoffer and Kirchgasser , but I think the best one is Marcel Hirscher from Annaberg, that is tiny!!
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DAB, Rainer Schoenfelder is from Petzen, that is fairly small.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Ben Turner - Radstadt 
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You know it makes sense.
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DAB,
flangesax posted at the same time and confirmed it - get your coat. 
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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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flangesax, OK then, what about your very own Hannes Reichelt from Radstadt!!Oh, yeah sorry.Ski Amade!
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Poster: A snowHead
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bode miller...cannon mntn, NH...
okbye
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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DB, flangesax, you boys play hard!
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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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| snowpatrol wrote: |
bode miller...cannon mntn, NH...
okbye |
Cannon. Small??? 
okbye
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Twickenham is definitely a small hill, Chemmy Alcott!
Alberto Tomba (quote from Wikipedia)
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born in Castel de Britti, San Lazzaro di Savena, between Ozzano dell'Emilia and Bologna — an area without strong alpine traditions, but not far from the appenninie pistes of Monte Cimone and Corno alle Scale.
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No surprise they are usually good slalom skiers.
Anja Paerson comes to mind
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Ed Drake...Hillingdon. After that burned down he moved to the larger hill at Wycombe ... which then burned down  .
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Marlies Schild - Saalfelden
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The Gerg and Ertl dynasties are from Lengries in Oberbayern - not exactly the highest of hills. Katya Seizinger is from North Rhine Westphalia 20km NW of Dortmund.
Hilde Gerg's parents ran a mountain hut in Lengries and she apparently used to ski down from there to school when it was open. Other's from the family are Andreas, Anne-Marie and Michaela
There was an Italian girl who used to be on the World Cup circuit a while back who was born and bought up somewhere in the south, near Rome I think! Can't for the life of me remember her name though.
Traudl Hächer is from the flatlands to the NW of Chiemsee - she was a GS skier and is Viktoria Rebensburg's mother! So it obviously runs in the family!
Any Brit who makes it to these standards is a flatlander! And I sort of remember a Dutchman who made it on to the WC circuit
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chrisdavis, sorry, DB will DSQ you.......its part of ski amade!!
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The French press makes a fair bit of the fact that Marie Marchand-Arvier is originally from Nancy and only moved to the Alps as a teenager.
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at the risk of being beaten to a pulp by arv for insinuating that Aviemore is not a big resort, what about our very own Alain Baxter?
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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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| DAB wrote: |
| chrisdavis, sorry, DB will DSQ you.......its part of ski amade!! |
The OP said 'big resorts.....'
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chrisdavis, He was nit picking.....NOT ME!!!!!!
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You know it makes sense.
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| DAB wrote: |
| chrisdavis, sorry, DB will DSQ you.......its part of ski amade!! |
Saalfelden's inbetween Lofer and Zell am See - in a wide flat valley. There's road access to Leogang and on to Saalbach etc... Ski Amade??
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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chrisdavis, yep, sorry mate, wow, you really like to put up a fight dont you
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Poster: A snowHead
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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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DAB, were any of the more exotic Giant Slalom olympians born below sea level?
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chrisdavis, that would depend on your definition of sea level? Don´t ask me trick questions at 10.30pm
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| DAB wrote: |
| at the risk of being beaten to a pulp by arv for insinuating that Aviemore is not a big resort, what about our very own Alain Baxter? |
and his brother and his cousin (a boarder, but a WC winning boarder none-the-less)
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| Fattes13 wrote: |
Does Flaucha count as a small hill despite being linked to the ski welt? If so Maier if not I shall get my coat.
Also isnt Janka from somwhere fairly small and obscure? |
With Flachau having 111 Km of Pistes and a little over 1000m of vertical, it isn't small.
It also isn't linked to the Ski Welt, but rather is part of the Ski Amade ski area (which consists of a number of resorts which are not lift linked).
But TBH, you really cannot describe anybody coming from the Austrian Tirol, Styria or Salzburgerland as coming from somewhere without decent sized hills, as pretty well anywhere in those areas is within an hour or so of good sized ski areas.
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| chrisdavis wrote: |
| DAB, were any of the more exotic Giant Slalom olympians born below sea level? |
Taina Barioz was born in Tahiti, probably fairly close to sea level.
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Two of the all time greats were not exactly from major alpine areas.
Ingemar Strenmark was from Sweden which, whilst it boast plenty of skiing does not compare with the major alpine resorts. I don't think his local hill was a major one. Alberto Tomba was from one of the non alpine bits of Italy though reading his Wikipedia artice he apparently learnt to ski in the Appenines.
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Oops Colin B beat me to it.
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didier cuche - les bugnenets
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chrisdavis, sorry, DB will DSQ you.......its part of ski amade!!
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well... i think it is Salzburger Super Ski Pass territory... can't be ars*d to ge my map out at the mo...
But alex_heney has a good point... the area needs to be widened... anyone in Salzburgerland has great access to tons of skiing no matter if they are from a tiny hamlet or a 'massive' city (like Radstadt!!)...
however... I recon Frosty the Snowman may have hit the nail on the head really!!!! 
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