The American Downhiller: A Historical Bond
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- Опубліковано 8 кві 2019
- The history of the American Downhillers goes back to before the advent of the World Cup. The tradition of Americans competing on European soil has formed a camaraderie that spans the test of time. This is their story.
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*This video contains explicit language
Narrated by Steve Porino
Produced by Claire Brown
Cinematography by Susie Theis and Claire Brown
Editing by Roger Carry
Photos: GEPA, Agence Zoom, SR Archive
This has been the year to pull my crash out of the Archives. HBO and American Downhiller. Lots of good friends on this video. Great stuff guys! Sorry to f' up your pre-race routine Marco!
I grew up racing in the PNW just behind (in age group) Scott Macartney. In case anyone wants to know, Macartney was the kind of guy you always wondered were human. He worked his butt off just as hard on dryland conditioning as he did on the slopes. I was certainly no great shakes on the race course but I was always proud of the racers from the Northwest (and to a lesser extent the West Coast, like Marco Sullivan out of Squaw Valley). It was very sadly painful to see Scott’s crash (and resultant head injury) as I had a similar encounter with traumatic brain injury and both Scott and I are lucky to be alive.
Tips up, p-tex on the snow and keep your head off it men; godspeed and good luck in 2019/20!!
Thanks Man- appreciate the comment. Lucky is right! Glad to be here. Glad you are too.
Scott Macartney glad you’re also still YOU. Not too much scarier than waking up in the hospital not knowing where you are, why you are there and/or why your parent(s) are there when they don’t live close by (meaning plane flight was involved). Hopefully you don’t have too many lingering results of your ‘melon calibration.’
great work PINO et all! thank you
Millertime lost the DH title in 07/08 by 10 points to Cuche. Final DH in Bormio was cancelled. Bode won in Bormio earlier in the season and was 2nd and 3rd the weekend before in Norway.. Almost!
09/10 He was trailing Walchofer by 10 points with 2 DH's left and called it season giving into a broken ankle he suffered in Beaver Creek in December and general frustration. So like the Red Sox's long wait to win WS it will be even sweeter when someone does win it!
I grew up seeing men ski, and emulated them. however, the character and athleticism of women is far more inspiring, since its the American women who have been winning. the men are still learning about the team and family, and working together thing.
Okay, fine and good, but.... where's Buddy Werner? Did I miss that part, if I did, sorry. In 1958 this American age 22, was the first from outside Austria and Switzerland to win the famed Hahnenkamm downhill race in Kitzbühel. His motto was, "never look back, but in his case we should.
All credit where credit is due but when it comes to DH pioneers, no mention of Cindy Nelson or Holly Flanders? What about the Crazy Canucks who surely proved to the Americans that non-European men could win World Cup DHs and the title?
This was a short docu about the men’s AMERICAN DH team...not the womens’ and not the CANADIANS. Nothing against either, they just weren’t the subject of the vid. The only person I was upset didn’t get a mention was Buddy Werner; I grew up racing in the PNW and the U12 racing league was (maybe still is, don’t know) called the Buddy Werner League.
@@samsonian You missed my point, which is that men can be influenced and inspired by women or by people not on their own team but who share a similar background, obstacle or common goal. It’s shortsighted and self-serving if not poor documentary making to ignore the roots of one’s success if it isn’t male or American.
M sure, if you say so. I’m not making judgment calls, just pointing out what I did. I think the docu was more than just a little limited; hell, they didn’t even get Bode to sit during the whole thing, even though behind Lindsey Vonn he’s the greatest downhiller the US has ever put out. I wasn’t trying to rile you, just pointing out limitations.
@@samsonian We did an entire episode on Bode that you can view here: ua-cam.com/video/z4-KqDgBvOY/v-deo.html
Hey Ski Racing Media , why are you not giving credit for photos that are copy written from the early 1970s by Jake…..They are not your pictures.
Not a word about our American WOMEN champions. Ridiculous.
I'm assuming more videos are to come. Otherwise using words like "The" and "American" and "Downhiller" but only covering the men's racers is not doing anyone any favors. The men have their story but that's only half the history and the men shouldn't be left to explain why the other half is missing. Why would the producers not tell the rest?
A lousy collection of boring stock footage