Earliest Big Event You Remember

[G.ski]

I would be remiss to not add Franz Klammer's gold medal winning downhill run in the 1976 Olympics.
My buddy Rick who is a non-skier broke his mother's glass coffee table banging on it with his fists he got so excited watching it.

 

[tirolski]

I would be remiss to not add Franz Klammer's gold medal winning downhill run in the 1976 Olympics.
My buddy Rick who is a non-skier broke his mother's glass coffee table banging on it with his fists he got so excited watching it.

Folks made a movie that’s coming out now about Klammer and that race.
“Did you always want to be famous?” He responds simply “No, I just wanted to ski.”

Chasing the Line: Story behind Franz Klammer's historic 1976 downhill gold

Tom Kelly brings us an in-depth review of the new Franz Klammer film, “Chasing the Line," including a conversation with the film's ski double, Daron Rahlves.

skiracing.com

 

[Harvey]

When I started nordic skiing we'd call going around corners fast, with chattering skis:

"Franz Klammering"

 

[jasonwx]

Folks made a movie that’s coming out now about Klammer and that race.
“Did you always want to be famous?” He responds simply “No, I just wanted to ski.”

Chasing the Line: Story behind Franz Klammer's historic 1976 downhill gold

Tom Kelly brings us an in-depth review of the new Franz Klammer film, “Chasing the Line," including a conversation with the film's ski double, Daron Rahlves.

skiracing.com

Arguably the most exciting run in history

 

[jamesdeluxe]

Probably the assassination of President Kennedy. My family had only recently gotten a TV because I had a Hunter College Elementary School assignment that required watching some show. My father mostly just used it to watch news. I have pretty clear memories of the horse with no rider.

Similarly for me, my earliest memory of a major public event is watching the funeral of RFK (June 1968) in the kitchen of our then-house on Nottingham Road in Syracuse, just down the road from Drumlins Country Club. I remember my mother crying.

 

[Harvey]

Arguably the most exciting run in history

I was hoping to see the full actual run, but it looks like it's not in that article.

 

[tirolski]

I was hoping to see the full actual run, but it looks like it's not in that article.

Naw, it’s just a story of makin a movie of a humble tirolean who likes to ski, fast.