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The Crazy Canucks Culture in This Country PHOTO BY A. HILL / COURTESY CANADIAN SKI MUSEUM era. When Canadians Devon Ker- shaw and Alex Harvey teamed up last March in Norway to win their country’s first Nordic World Cham- Th e pionship gold medal in the sprint relay, the two skiers unleashed a flood of questions. Canadians? Win- ning gold? In Nordic skiing? You gotta be kidding! razy anucks It was déjà vu in full flower, C C a sporting flashback. It was like watching the rebirth of those crazy Canada’s famous downhill foursome dominated (like a fox) Canadian downhillers— the World Cup for a decade. Their podium results only this time, the guys were racing on skinny skis. And instead of Kitz- were legendary, but was their legacy lasting? bühel’s vaunted Hahnenkamm, they by Michel beaudry were winning at Oslo’s Holmenkol- len Park. But their rise to promi- photo courtesy Of KEN READ nence featured hauntingly similar scripts. COURTESY CANADIAN SKI MUSEUM Like their Nordic counterparts Above: Dave Irwin flies nearly four decades later, Canada’s down the course at the most famous downhill foursome 1980 Winter Games in Lake jumped to prominence at a relatively Placid, New York. He was young age. By the time they were a member of the Canadian in their early twenties, Ken Read, ski team from 1971 to 1982 The Canadian men’s alpine Dave Murray, Dave Irwin and Steve and competed in 35 World ski team at a 1982 World Cup Podborski were the darlings of the Cup downhills during his event in Val d’Isere, France. White Circus. In Europe, where career. Right: Irwin cel- “Ours was a Cinderella most of the downhill racing oc- ebrates a World Cup win story,” says downhill racer curred, they were bona fide stars, in December 1976 at Steve Podborski. “It never with their own fan clubs, groupies Schladming, Austria. should have happened. But and hangers-on. it did, because we were able From 1975 to 1984, the Crazy to build on each others’ Canucks posted more than 100 top- success.” ten World Cup finishes. Three of sessions with the northern stars. No continental rivals. Had to ruthlessly the four skiers scored multiple wins other skiing nation had ever featured watch their spending, find ever- (with Murray just missing by a such an engaging—and successful— more imaginative ways to stretch hair). Their legacy includes a dozen alpine foursome. their inadequate budgets. World Cup victories, countless po- Which brought them attention But diligent preparation can only diums, and Podborski’s 1980 Olym- wherever they went. On the hill or get you so far. To win—and to win pic bronze medal and 1982 overall in the bars, in the betting booths or consistently—they also had to be- downhill World Cup title. Still, it the media tent, everyone wanted to lieve in themselves. was in Austria’s Kitzbühel—site of be part of their scene. And the fun- So what was their secret? How the revered Streif course—where the ny thing was, the Canadians were did they manage to hoist themselves he spectators couldn’t believe their eyes. How could this But it was more than results—it was at- boys’ legend was burnished. Racing considered way more approachable from the indiscriminate ranks of the be happening? Especially here, in the country’s temple titude. They took wild risks. Fought hard. in front of 50,000 screaming Austri- than their rivals. Way more relaxed also-rans to the pantheon of skiing’s to skiing culture…How dare these young upstarts run Reached for impossibly high goals. Yet ans on what is widely considered about everything. They just seemed near-immortals? away with the race? What the heck were these mad, new- they didn’t take themselves too seriously. the pre-eminent speed course in the to take victory in stride. world skiers up to? Still, there was something seductive And when they won, they played to world, Ken Read started the 1980s But like all “overnight” success Making the grade Tabout their performance. their new fans like media veterans. Smiles. with a victory there that led to a tales, this one has a backstory. And “We were all very good technical No matter that their country’s history of success was negligible in Waves. Hurrahs. The spectators ate it up. four-year winning streak by Cana- that’s where it really gets interesting. skiers,” Steve Podborski explained the sport, particularly on the men’s side. No matter that their team’s And why not? The winners looked great: dian downhillers. For like their Nordic counterparts in a recent interview with Skiing budget was miniscule compared to their rivals’. Or that nobody fol- fresh-faced kids with confident, fear-noth- A stroll through Kitzbühel’s this past season, Read and his co- Heritage. “And that’s often over- lowed this kind of racing back home. These young Canucks were ing gazes. Athletes who actually looked storied streets back then was like horts had to overcome near-impossi- looked in the Crazy Canuck legend. burning up the track. Together with their coaches, they’d worked like they were having fun out there. Who a visit to a Canadian ski museum. ble barriers to get to where they got. We were all damn good athletes. hard to devise a campaign that maximized their considerable strengths truly appreciated what it meant to stand Every store window, it seemed, had Had to virtually re-invent their sport And we all came from very well- while mitigating their just-as-considerable weaknesses. And now they on the top step of a world-class podium. a Canucks’ face staring out from it. and the way they trained. Had to established skiing families.” were reaping the results. And it brought to mind an earlier Every ski shop advertised autograph work harder and smarter than their He smiles knowingly. “But we 18 | July-August 2011 SKIING HERITAGE www.skiinghistory.org July-August 2011 | 19 photos ON THIS pagE by stephanie sloan / CANADIAN SKI MUSEUM photos ON THIS pagE courtesy CANADIAN SKI MUSEUM ning. I remember going to one race in the early 1970s and the hotel had beds that sagged at least a foot! But that was nothing. Our showers had only one temperature: cold.” A long pause. “And forget about ski-prep rooms. They didn’t exist in our ho- tel. But our hosts thought that was okay for Canadians. As far as they were concerned, we were ski trash… which only made us hungrier to prove them wrong.” It also encouraged the northern- ers to re-evaluate their ski-training methods. “The decision to focus our efforts entirely on downhill was a very conscious one,” explains Pod- borski. “We knew that there were hundreds of good slalom and giant Steve Podborski racing in a World Cup event in the early 1980s. He was the first Cana- slalom skiers in Europe. Working dian male to win an Olympic medal in downhill (bronze in 1980 at Lake Placid) your way into the first slalom seed Dave Murray raced for the Canadian and also the first to win an overall World Cup downhill title (1981–1982). was hell. It took forever.” Not so in men’s alpine team from 1971 to 1982. He downhill. “It was a much simpler Podborski (left) and his teammate Ken competed in two Winter Olympics (the thing to reach the first group there. Indeed, Klammer was considered Two weeks later, in Schladming, Read (right) pose for a Canadian Ski 1976 Games in Innsbruck, Austria and the Not so many racers. And a bet- virtually unbeatable in those years. Austria, yet another Canadian found Association photo. 1980 Games in Lake Placid, New York). ter track. ” He laughs. “Remember, So when Canuck Ken Read man- his way to the top step of the po- His best season was 1975–1976, when he there was virtually no hill prep in aged to draw the number one start dium. And this time there was no captured four top-ten World Cup finishes. those days. You got to ski whatever for the first World Cup race of the doubt. “Dave Irwin beat Klammer He died of skin cancer in 1990. was in front of you.” season, few gave him much chance by nearly two seconds in Schlad- what it would take to get ski racing So the Canadians decided to against the far more experienced ming,” says Steve, clearly enjoying on TV. ‘Five victories,’ they said.” concentrate on speed. “At first, I Austrian. Sure, the Canadians were the memories. “That didn’t leave He shrugs. “And that’s exactly what were also extremely competitive— struggled to get my head around it,” improving. Sure, they took risks that much room for talk of ‘luck’.” it took. It wasn’t until 1980 that and smart, too. We realized that admits Podborski. “As a junior, I others didn’t. But they were still a But not everyone was happy downhill made it to the small screen none of us could win individually was a slalom specialist. I still wanted long way from challenging the best. with the outcome. “When we tried here in Canada.” if each acted on his own.” He lets to race the technical events!” Weren’t they? to leave the finish area in our team It was also in 1980 that Cana- a beat float by. “If we wanted to be But the argument made sense. Not on this day. While Klam- car,” he continues, “the Austrian dians started paying attention to the best, we had to subordinate our Led by coach Scott Henderson, the mer crashed 100 yards from the fin- fans started rocking our car and Pod.
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