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Michael Johnson Downhill Skier - BBC Inside Sport Special
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- Опубліковано 6 січ 2014
- BBC Inside Sport Special from 8 February 2010 prior to the Vancouver Winter Olympics.
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Very well done. Michael Johnson approached his role in this documentary and as an interviewer just like he was running ... professional, talented and in perfect style. Congratulations.
One thing I would add is how much fun it is. People talk about adrenaline and some sort of wish/risk fulfillment and pushing boundaries and all that psychological bla, bla, blah, but for me it was just all out fun as hell! I enjoyed every minute of it, every second of it.
Same here - massive adrenaline rush accompanied by pure fun.
I watch simply because I love seeing people taking it to an edge that I personally could never approach at their level, and just marvel at their skills.
I wish in covering the crashes they would have covered Pietro Vitalini’s crash at Kitzbühel in 1995. I know Hermann Meier’s crash at Nagano in 1998 was more famous because it was at the Olympics and he won the SG 4 days later, but Pietro’s was WAY more impressive if you know the story. He caught an edge at 60-70mph (100-118kph) and flipped up into the air over a 6’ (1.8m) fence, tumbling over and over; down the hill below. There are 2 things that make that crash exceptional above so many others (along with Meier’s): 1) only a few days before, that hillside he tumbled down was BARE...he certainly would have either died or ended up horribly injured, and 2) the race he crashed out of was a double-header...he got up, put his equipment back on and WON THIRD IN THE AFTERNOON RACE...IN KITZBÜHEL!!! All I can say is, Pietro must have a hard time walking with such huge titanium balls.
I’ve always had the utmost respect for these athletes, so many ways to injure yourself, and they do it regardless. Another thing that’s often overlooked is their fitness levels, skiers are among the fittest athletes in the world.
Been there, don that . . Tank You. Very good.
The dark side of The Game.
Watching downhill during 1984 Olympics made me 12 years old fall in love with skiing.
Since then I totally understand these guys. Great video!
Very interesting and insightful. It really gave me the feeling of the fear in the sport, even though I am a big ski acing fan. Having Michael Johnson's fresh take, as a world champion athlete looking at this often underrated sport, was quite gratifying. His respect and appreciation for these athletes, is at least a little satisfaction, against the vast ignorance and lack of interest, by the average sports fan!
Really pleased you enjoyed it Greg. Having watched some ski racing from the other side of the orange barriers, these men and women deserve recognition for their commitment and skill. We're lucky (in the UK) to see Michael Johnson working for the BBC at regular points in the year. He has superb insight.
> looking at this often underrated sport
Unless you live in one of the Alpine countries, or Norway, there it is highly regarded ;-)
My respect for Michael Johnson and his film. I was a Klammer fan as a boy, he won most downhill races for the three consecutive winters 1975-77. He was in a flow with enormous self-confidence. At the end of the 1977 winter his younger brother remained paralysed after a fall in a youth race. That may be one of the reasons why Klammer lost his dominance in the following years, if only a bit of insecurity creeps in that can be decisive.
I watched the race live on TV when the young Swiss star Beltrametti fell, being paralysed afterwards. That was very sad. While the interviews in this video show how very well he adapted to his fate, how very strong he is mentally.
"I never really had a bad crash but I broke my legs twice, upper & lower..." Didier Cuche at 6:00. I guess those were nice crashes...
Their definition must differ from ours, a bad crash for them is one were they don’t get up.
'it's over sooner' sooooooo true......
Oh - and one thing might be added to the motivation for being the fastest downhiller of the world: All these guys grew up with the sport and the desire, to ski down faster than their friends, their team pals, their fellow national team members and, finally, the foreign competition. Still, just like boys from back then, the question is: Who gets down the fastest. Older, stronger, educated and veery skilled ... but still trying to answer the question: Who (of us boys) gets down the fastest. Usually, the wild chap next door ... y'know ... the guy that never knew any boundries, made it!
I really admire alpine skiers, they've got big brass balls, all of them. To fly down that hill at the speeds they're doing and stay on the edge is mind blowing. They're fantastic atheletes.
Charging into the zone fully and completely for glory
I send this video to others to help them understand me better.
I knew an alpine skier that accidentally went off course, hitting a yearling tree 🌲 Cut it in half with his upper body and the second tree, his body was stop by his head, I cannot believe he did not die that day, although he was in the hospital for months and he will never be the same, at least he’s alive!!!
I asked him what would’ve done different today knowing what he knows now, and that brave bastard said nothing different, absolutely nothing different!! 👍🏽 😊
Well done analysis. I know a guy who ran Kitzbuhel. He lives life big.
First of all, most fans are skiers themselves. We do NOT like to see crashes. I personally cringe and have to look away whenever I see a hard hit to the head. For some reason the busted up legs and knees do not bother me. But I hate to see head injuries. Been there, done that in an era when concussions were not so well understood.
The admiration and respect that fellow skiers have is knowing just how good top skiers are, and having some understanding of how difficult it is to ski at that level. When it is water infused plate ice, your typical skier has no clue how to even get a ski to hold. Maybe 1 skier in 100 is even at the level to know what to even do, technique wise. Of those that actually understand what to do, probably only 1 in 1,000 have the courage, mental drive and athletic ability to do it on a 45 degree pitch, going 100-140 kmph, while pulling 3+ Gs in a turn with nothing protecting you but a lightweight helmet and a 1mm polyester/spandex speed suit. Of the 100 Million or so people on earth who ski, that math takes you down to about 1,000 serious elite competitors. Only 1 in about 20 of that 1000 will rise to the World Cup level.
I raced as a Jr. Wow was it fun. I still find it sad how in ski racing, if you are not at the elite level by the time you are 18, you are DONE with serious racing. You make the USST, or make one of the very few top collegiate teams, or that is it. I am 40 years+ now, and I still ski probably in the top fraction of a % of the skiing population. But there is another level of athleticism and mental clarity that it takes to compete at the higher levels. It is a warlike mentality coupled with pure aggression and under-rated athleticism. You just have to ATTACK the course. You have to commit to laying that ski over to 70 degrees+. Get on the edge above the fall line, forward on the ski. Stay early. Let em run. Hit your marks. Keep the skis on the snow. There really is nothing like it. When it all comes together, it is so much fun. It is just hard to explain what it is like to pull 3 Gs and crank a carved turn on ice at speed using a freaking 2m long plank clamped to your feet! But when it goes wrong, there are few sports that extract a higher price. Motorcycle Road Racing, DH MTB and Supercross/Motocross are the only sports in my mind that compare.
It would be fascinating to do something similar with National Hunt jockeys
Excellent
I lost my friend Suzy Ferguson to a down hill race. I my self have been lucky being partially paralyzed and making a comeback.
Schadenfreude, is why people love to watch! An excellent representation of downhillers, best I have ever seen!
When you are at the Start Gate you do not have time to think about the risk. You are busy thinking about how to attack and conquer the course. And once you enter the course the Rush kicks in and you have nothing but a channel vision. Game on!
If you have to ask why we want to ski downhill, you will not understand our answer.
Yes it real . I can never let it go. I need that speed and risk.
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me too
Bill Johnson ... only
To the commenter said he had no fear I would have to say he was not right in the head. I would say there is always fear but these guys are able to control it. Look at Gernot Reinstadler's fatal crash and you will have fear.
yah Sacha! Gouldie for life bro!
I raced downhill for years... no fear.
Shut up. You did not. Jens von Bulow is not a known name in the alpine community. Post a vid sucker or shut it.
@@tevjekristoffereriksen7236 the World Cup is not the only place to race downhill. Even if Jens didn’t ski at the top level of the sport I know men and women that compete in masters racing well into their 70s and 80s. Don’t shit on someone else just because you don’t know much about the sport or don’t value the fact someone wasn’t one of the top 60-100 racers in the world.
This helmet technology as in the NFL (although improvements are being made), has not kept pass with the ski technology or the racers ability. If you look at the preparation, the speed and other equipment, the helmet technology is primitive. Great video though.
You can make Helmets as good as you like ~ but the weakest link is then the neck ~ as in M'cycle racing ~ break the neck & its bad news. Remember, nobody is forcing these people.
Isle of Man TT - another level - now those guy's are NUTTERS!!! Given the choice I would take a down hill run any time, much safer!!!
Most certainly true. But when talking about the danger in sports it makes sense to exclude the extreme/fringe sports like base jumping, mountain climbing, Isle of Man TT etc. Because it is well understood by everyone that these are extremely dangerous sports. However, many people tend to think of all Olympic sports as being rather benign. The point of this video is to show how downhill racing stands apart from its Olympic siblings.
Yes, I do agree, but this is a non motorized sport, totally different and more dangerous than any other non motorize sport. And you have to be more physical than motorized ones. Try it, I did with Franz Klammer in the 70's at Kitzbuell . I was an also ran but I did it.
donald magnuson did both skiing and motocyeles seen my friend go down and walk from 149 mph
Ski racing not so my friend got killed hitting a tree off corce.
That’s ridiculous, self preservation is not a negative attitude. If conditions are poor on a downhill run there isn’t going to be great times because no one is going to ski blind downhill at 70mph. No one would coach or manage someone that reckless that it reflect poorly on them.
Seems strange seeing a black man on the ski slopes, i have been all over the swiss/austrian alps skiing and never once seen a black on the slopes.
Thankfully, at least here in the States, there are more and more every year. Very common at the ski areas that are near large cities like Perfect North with Cincinnati only 20 miles away.
@@juniorjohnson9509 thats fair enough, I guess its different over in the states. Here in most Swiss and Austrian ski resorts it wouldn't been seen as acceptable for a black to be on the slopes , especially the more exclusive resorts like lech, davos and St moritz etc....
@@colinprice990 here in colorado it’s very common.
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