Store this angel in big size'It is absolutely astonishing - I am appreciative to be at home here': The bifold Olympic best Felix Gottwald could hardly accept his eyes endure weekend if several thousand humans had appear calm in 'Stadtplatz' in his built-in boondocks of Zell am See to bless 'their Felix'. Not alone had Gottwald been one of the a lot of adorable sportsmen in the Austrian delegation, but aswell their a lot of acknowledged one in the afresh accomplished Winter Games: in his fourth Olympics he showed what he is able to achieve. While the country's top expectations accepted to be too abundant for some of the added top athletes, 30-year-old Gottwald was absolutely acknowledged and managed to defended as abounding as three medals for himself. Gold in the sprint, gold with the team, and argent in the alone Gundersen: that is the absorbing antithesis of achievements apparent by the man who comes from the admirable anniversary arena about Lake Zell.
Now Felix Gottwald has accomplished the cold of his dreams. Before the alpha of the twentieth Winter Olympics his greatest ambition had been to acknowledgment from there with some affectionate of adored metal. But cipher was added afraid than he himself that he was now able to appearance off even three trophies on the break of his appointment to Zell am See: 'Thank God, it has happened. And I artlessly let it happen', he said. The joy at this success was accounting all over his face. The Olympic hero of the year 2006 aswell accustomed congratulations from his adolescent citizens and antic assembly Doris Günther and Hans Peter Steinacher. Steinacher, bifold Olympic best in Tornado sailing, bidding his account for 'Felix'. 'In my sport, you do not accept to attempt so harder to the accomplishment and you do not absolutely accept to go to the banned of your body's capability.' Snowboarder Doris Günther aswell anticipation that Gottwald ability able-bodied serve as a animated example. She alone just absent a abode on the achievement belvedere with her achievement in the Olympic behemothic alongside slalom. But she is not giving up and will go for a badge afresh in the next Winter Games in Vancouver.
Like Günther and Steinacher, Felix Gottwald aswell has his roots in the 'Europa-Sportregion'. He was complete actuality on 13th January, 1976, and for that reason, his affection for winter sports is apparently automatically inborn. He fabricated his actual aboriginal attempts at sliding on skis on Kitzsteinhorn and Schmittenhöhe. And if he after apparent cross-country skiing for himself, his home arena offered ideal altitude for that discipline, too: a 40-kilometre arrangement of paths, affiliated with the absolute arrangement of cross-country advance of Pinzgau, makes cross-country skiing a absolute amusement here. When Gottwald aswell accepted to be a abundant aptitude at ski jumping, his approaching as a Nordic Combined amateur was absolutely clear. In 2002 he already won three brownish medals in Salt Lake City.
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With 13,500 beds and two actor brief stays per year, the 'Europa-Sportregion Zell am See - Kaprun' is one of the a lot of important tourism centres in Austria. In winter as in summer, guests acquisition all kinds of leisure activities to accept from. For ski admirers there are 130 kilometres of finest pistes in blubbery crumb snow. In the summer months Zell am See and Kaprun allure with ideal altitude for added than 40 altered kinds of sports - from hiking and golfing, cycling and all baptize sports to acute sports like canyoning and, endure not least, summer skiing on the berg of Kitzsteinhorn. In contempo years the arena has aswell hosted abounding contest of the Mountain Bike World Cup. In 2002 it was the area of the UCI World Championships of Mountain Biking.
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