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Exactly twenty-five years have passed since that January 29, 1994 in which Ulrike Maier died during the descent of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and the tragic fall on live TV is still in the eyes of all those who attended, including the writer.
Tuesday 29 January 2019 3 minutes reading time
Before the bend to the left that led to the final part of the Kreuzeck-Kandahar "Ulli", as everyone knew, gleaned with the right ski, he fell and hit his head against a snowdrift at the edge of the track instead of the photocell 'intermediate, as established then the investigation opened due to the complaint of the family of the 26 year old Austrian skier against the Bavarian organizers. Because of that impact, the helmet broke off causing the fracture of the cervical vertebrae and leaving it in the middle of the track. The desperate rush to the hospital was useless. That day to arrive first with the pectoral number 35 was Isolde Kostner, at the first but also sadder victory of his career.
Born on 22 October 1967 in Rauris, a town in the Salzburger Land, Ulrike was a woman of great events: she won the 1989 World Cup in Vail / Beaver Creek in super-G and was repeated in 1991 in Saalbach in the same specialty, on the occasion of the first triumph Ulli was pregnant two months of Melanie, the child who often went to the races. His first victory in the World Cup is November 28, 1992 in the giant Park City, the last of January 21, 1994 in that of Maribor, eight days before his death. In the Cup he collected 5 first (2 in super-G and 3 in giant), 9 seconds and 6 third places, while in addition to the two world champions can boast the world silver giant in Saalbach always in 1991, at the Olympics instead was sixth in giant at Calgary 1988 and fourth in giant and fifth in super-G in Albertville 1992. At the end of that season he would have had to retire from competitions to marry with his partner Hubert Schweighofer, but unfortunately all ended up on her in that tragic day of twenty-five years ago.
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