Many of the world's top skiers have walked its halls and at this year's Olympics, its alumni bagged 12 medals: for nearly half a century the ski high school in Stams, Austria has been churning out champions like a factory. The tiny village, set in a green Tyrolean valley below snowy peaks, launched the careers of top skiing names from Stephan Eberharter to Anita Wachter or Toni Innauer and more recently Gregor Schlierenzauer, Marlies Schild and Felix Gottwald. Not ...Saturday 15 November 2014
Ski Champion 'Factory' of Austria Churns Out Gold
Many of the world's top skiers have walked its halls and at this year's Olympics, its alumni bagged 12 medals: for nearly half a century the ski high school in Stams, Austria has been churning out champions like a factory. The tiny village, set in a green Tyrolean valley below snowy peaks, launched the careers of top skiing names from Stephan Eberharter to Anita Wachter or Toni Innauer and more recently Gregor Schlierenzauer, Marlies Schild and Felix Gottwald. Not ...
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