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members in Lausanne, Bangkok and Mexico City, offering ceremonial Olympic pins but no other inducements, Ausserwinkler said. Klagenfurt officials have pitched their bid to I.O.C. "But we'll make the best of it." Even if it means preparing Klagenfurt for another bid for the 2010 Olympics. member visits to the proposed three-nation Olympic region, planned last November, were canceled when the Salt Lake scandal tainted the Olympic movement. "It's unfair because Sion is well known," said Michael Ausserwinkler, the president of Klagenfurt 2006, during an interview with Klammer in New York yesterday. The new regulation has forced bid city officials to go on the road to plead their cases to I.O.C. Were halted to limit lavish hospitality and illicit gift-giving. The I.O.C.'s choice of the winning city on June 19 in Seoul, South Korea, will come amid new rules promulgated two months ago in the aftermath of the Salt Lake City bribery scandal. It fits perfectly into the Olympic ideal." Now we're trying toīring countries and regions together.
"Once, we were at war against each other. "This is the first three-country bid ever," said Klammer, who lives in the Austrian region of Carinthia, of which Klagenfurt is the capital. Of the organizing committee's athletic ambassadors sent out to extol the unique three-nation "bid without borders" against the other bid cities: Sion, Switzerland, which is considered an early front-runnerĪfter losing bids for the 19 Games Turin, Italy Helsinki, Finland Zakopane, Poland, and Poprad-Tatry, Slovakia. Now, 15 years since he last competed in the Olympics, Klammer, 45, is in a race to persuade the International Olympic Committee to select Klagenfurt, a joint Austrian-Italian-Slovenian bid for the 2006 Winter Games. "I watch it often and I win all the time," he said, laughing. He relives the memory frequently for corporate audiences and a videotape of his assault on the downhill never seems far away. "It was my best decision ever," he said yesterday.įranz Klammer, the hero of the '76 Olympics, pitches for downhill, is trying to win a bid to 2006 Winter Games. Halfway down the Patscherkofel course, he trailed Bernhard Russi, and needed something special to make up time.Ĭoming out of a jump, Klammer made a wide, even reckless turn near a fence that accelerated him to victory by. Ranz Klammer can recall every tiny detail, every sharp turn and every steep angle of his dramatic downhill race at the 1976 Winter Klammer Still on Slopes After '76 Downhill Feat
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